It appears a state initiative iis helping boost the number of students returning to school for a credential.
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Colorado’s efforts to help people who stopped attending college to get a credential are paying off. The state had the seventh-highest number of credential completers in the nation, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse. It jumped 129 percent from the 2022-23 to the 2023-24 academic year.
That dramatic jump was despite Colorado having the 20th largest population of students who have some credits but no degree, known as “stopped-out” students who left college for a variety of reasons. It is a significant — more than 600,000 — but often overlooked group within the higher education landscape.
