FINANCIAL EDUCATION, COLLEGE RETENTION, AND GRADUATION RATES.
This study analyzes the relationship of completion of a college level personal finance course to undergraduate retention and graduation rates. Through the utilization of comparative data, results demonstrated that students who completed the personal finance course had a significantly higher probabil...
| Published in: | College Student Journal Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 479 - 490 |
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