To illustrate the struggle for the students, it is essential to look at the factors involved in determining the probability of obtaining …show more content…
This is expressed in Marvin A. Titus’s article, “UNDERSTANDING COLLEGE DEGREE COMPLETION OF STUDENTS WITH LOW ECONOMIC STATUS: The Influence of the Institutional Financial Context,” in that it compares and contrasts the multiple reasons involved. Titus observes that, “The HGLM demonstrates that college degree completion is positively influenced by college academic performance, degree major certainty,campus residence, and student involvement and negatively influenced by being a member of an underrepresented minority group, unmet financial need, and working more …show more content…
With a student that has a majority of these factors, it is likely they will complete their degree. Thus, a four-year level of degree may be the prefered option in that the student would be easier able to achieve this degree than someone without these factors. As such, those with the ‘negatively influenced’ factors would likely require a simpler, faster, and easier degree. This would signify that those students have a higher probability to select the two-year level of degree