Still, TICAS found the class of 2014 graduated with a record high amount of debt.
Columbia officials said the crowd that squeezed into the university's central quadrangle was the largest ever at a Columbia graduation ceremony, with about 10,000 graduates, a record, and more than 30,000 guests, also a record.
The difference in earnings between a high-school graduate and a college graduate hit a record high last year, after doubling between 1979 and 2013, according to new data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on labor issues.
Yet when 83% of students are graduating high school (a record high), but only 38% are ready to succeed in college, we have work to do to ensure that a high school diploma truly stands for being ready for college and a career.
At one point in 2007, one of the greatest teams in Kansas had outscored its opponents, 704-0, through 10 games, and its seniors graduated with a 54-0 record.
Of all Krzyzewski's Duke players, only two have stayed the full four years and failed to graduate, a remarkable record in an era when some other elite programs routinely graduate fewer than half their players.
A spokesman for the university said that higher than average enrollment at both Columbia College and the School of Engineering had increased the number of graduates to 10,430, a record.
A recent Institute of Education skills and employment survey shows graduate jobs at a record high level while unskilled jobs at a record low, with 74% of those with degrees in graduate jobs, compared with 69% in 2006.
The findings of the Skills and Employment Survey, with the latest figures for 2012, show a significant milestone in the employment landscape, with graduate jobs at a record high level and unskilled jobs at a record low.
Julianne Carlson, a new graduate of Yale — where a record 18 percent of seniors applied to Teach for America — says she knows a half dozen "amazing" classmates who were rejected, although the number is probably higher.
