2 in 5 students who attend college fail to get a degree from the college at which they began within 6 years.
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This scary statistic is based on data from the U.S. Government's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). According to the NCES, 42.7% of students did not get a bachelor's degree from the college at which they began within 6 years.
