Howard University to Pay Students to Graduate on Time
It’s good to give students incentives, but paying them?
FOX 13 reported.
University to pay students who graduate on time
Howard University is going to pay its students to graduate in four years.
The school says it will cover 50% of the cost of a student’s final semester if they graduate early or on time, starting next year. A single semester’s sticker price is $11,900, so that would be a savings of about $6,000 for anyone paying full price.
And if the program motivates students to finish their coursework faster and enter the workforce sooner than they would have otherwise, they’ll actually save even more, said Derek Kindle, Howard’s executive director of student financial services.
About 46% of Howard University students graduate in four years, which is higher than the national average of 39%.
Howard’s tuition rebate program is “relatively uncommon,” said Robert Kelchen, an education professor at Seton Hall University.
At public colleges in Texas, students earn a $1,000 rebate if they finish on time. And some schools, such as Eastern Illinois University, offer a guaranteed tuition rate for four years. After that, the cost for any additional credits would go up.
Comments
Most of the students I see are avoiding the real world and are on govt. loans. They don’t particularly want to graduate because they would have to go to work. In looking at their grades, I certainly wouldn’t hire the average college graduate.