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&lt;p&gt;The American Enterprise Institute released a study yesterday called &quot;Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don&#39;t),&quot; comparing graduation rates to admission selectivity among U.S. colleges and universities.  They surveyed 1,3000 four-year undergraduate programs from across the country.  In their study, they divided colleges into six &quot;levels of selectivity&quot; based on the standards set by &lt;i&gt;Barron&#39;s Profiles of American Colleges&lt;/i&gt; and set about comparing the percentage of students who graduated in six years or less.  In a nutshell, they found that the more selective the institution, the higher its graduation rate.  If you are accepted to Harvard, for example, there is little you could do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to graduate.  According to the study, &quot;Noncompetitive institutions graduate, on average, 35 percent of their students, while the most competitive institutions graduate 88 percent.&quot;  In other words, if you go to a highly competitive school, you are two-thirds more likely to graduate than if you went to a noncompetitive school.  Admittedly, much of this is because of the kind of students who go to highly competitive schools--highly driven, type-A kids.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;America&#39;s college graduation rate crisis is not happening at the handful of institutions that admit only a few of their applicants and graduate most--it is happening at a large swath of institutions that admit many but graduate few.&quot;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While these results aren&#39;t surprising, what is unexpected is the difference in graduation rates within a given selectivity level.  &quot;In the noncompetitive category, the range in graduation rates spans ninety-two percentage points, from Southern University, New Orleans, at 8 percent to Arkansas Baptist College at 100 percent.&quot;  As President Obama commits more funding to higher education so that the U.S. can &quot;once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world,&quot; consideration should be given to which schools receive support--and what they will use it for.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;We believe that the graduation rate measure included here should be just the beginning of a deeper inquiry into college success--one driven by more accurate measures broadly defined: in future earnings, in acquiring knowledge, in succeeding in the workplace, and ultimately in becoming the kind of citizens on which the stability and prosperity of our society rest.  Colleges play a large role in shaping those outcomes, for good or ill--more so, perhaps, than is often believed.&quot; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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