79.5% of Students Dropped Out of College in 2020 Due to PTS Contributions
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The 2020 Higher Education Statistics Report shows that 601,333 students dropped out of college in 2020. Private universities contributed the most to the dropout rate. A total of 478,826 students, or 79.5% of all dropouts, were from private universities.
The next highest number of dropouts came from public universities, with 101,758 students. Following this, 18,284 students dropped out from religious universities, and 3,395 from other ministry/agency universities.
Men accounted for the majority of dropouts, with 370,322, while women accounted for 231,011.
Economics programs contributed the highest number of dropouts, with 141,393 students dropping out in 2020. This represents 23.5% of the total number of student dropouts.
The next largest group was engineering, with 136,272 students (22.6% of the total) dropping out.
This was followed by education (120,655 students), social sciences (115,533 students), and health sciences (26,097 students). The lowest dropout rate was in the arts, with only 4,524 students (0.8%) dropping out.
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