Stig Leschly

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the reluctance of US college accreditors to discipline their member colleges for poor student outcomes or low-grade academic programming.  Accreditors, according to our research, devote a mere 3% of their formal oversight activities to policing worrisome student outcomes or academic programing.  That accreditors skirt regulating college quality is inexplicable, College Accreditors: ‘New Colleges Need Not Apply’ … READ MORE

The federal government recently released a new batch of data on the earnings outcomes of students in 4-year colleges in the US.   The new data, in their most eye-popping dimension, pin down every 4-year college in the US by the salary results of students ten years after they start college.  The data reveal alarming patterns Eyeballing College Earnings … READ MORE

I live in Massachusetts, went to graduate school here, and teach entrepreneurship part-time at Harvard Business School. So, with my backyard in mind, I take a close look in this blog at the college scene in the Commonwealth.   What I lay out here might surprise you. Pockets of Abysmal Graduation Rates.  Graduation rates are shockingly Concerning Commonwealth Colleges … READ MORE

Community colleges have been in the news a lot lately, mainly because they were contenders for a slot in Biden’s large spending bill. Debates about community colleges — both this time around and in general — are often disconnected from important facts about them, in my opinion. With that in mind, below I work up 10 Crucial Facts about Community College … READ MORE

Below is an amazing chart on college selectivity. It groups 4-year colleges into 10 buckets by how selective they are, and it shows how many students (of various backgrounds) are in each bucket of college selectivity. Take a close look. What do you see? Below, I give you my 5 take-aways. 1: Highly Selective Colleges The Irrelevance of Highly Selective Colleges … READ MORE