Failure to graduate is nothing to worry about in Maryland

Colleges that don’t graduate students don’t have to worry in Maryland. Taxpayer money flows to them regardless of performance.

Coppin State University (CSU) is a case in point. According to a report released earlier this month by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), “Diplomas and Dropouts,” only 19 percent of students graduate within six years from CSU, a historically black college in Baltimore. That makes it the worst performing college in the region among its peers and one of the 10 worst in the country, according to the report.