Field of study not key to new academic program success
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 21, 2023
percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Digging Into the Data Using federal education data, Lightcast researchers found growth at 2,274 out of 8,007 new programs studied from 2016–17 through 2021, for a success rate of 28.4
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