Cognitive and Personality Factors in Relation to Timely Completion of a College Degree

Higher education presents a wide array of challenges for today's students including completion of college in a timely manner. For previous undergraduate srudents four years were typically required to complete a degree program. Today's freshman may now spend five, six, and sometimes in excess of six years in order to successfully complete an undergraduate degree program (National Center for Education Statistics, 2004). A wide variety of factors can be related to an extended college experience including monetary concerns with many students holding parttime or even full-time jobs to cover expenses, indecision about one s choice of major, changing majors, changing colleges/universities, adjustment to personal freedoms, and ineffective and/or inefficient learning strategies. All of these are factors that need to be taken into account in time to graduation and graduation rates, While raw graduation rates may not be the best means of evaluating colleges, there has recently been more emphasis on accountability and standards from the publie sector in obtaining a degree in a timely manner from two- and four-year institutions (Scott, Bailey, & Kienzl, 2006).

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