Pre-college beliefs of students that were confirmed through college experience U.S. 2017

This statistic shows the opinion of students as to whether their pre-college beliefs were confirmed by their experiences in school in the United States as of 2017. In 2017, 31 percent of respondents stated that their belief that college would help them do well financially was strongly confirmed by their experience.

To what degree did your college/university experience confirm the beliefs you had prior to starting?

Characteristic	Strongly disproved	Somewhat disproved	Neither disproved nor confirmed	Somewhat confirmed	Strongly confirmed
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Release date

May 2017

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Region

North America, United States

Survey time period

2017

Special properties

Current freshmen-second year seniors (1st-5th year) or currently enrolled in a Masters or Doctorate program

Supplementary notes

Original question: To what degree did your college/university experience confirm the beliefs you had prior to starting? Before I started college/university, I believed it would…

Respondent sample size:
Receiving good education = 3,052;
Providing resources for success = 3,019;
Allowing to explore different education opportunities = 1,381;
Increasing employment opportunities = 3,558;
Allowing to explore different employment opportunities = 1,798;
Helping to do well financially = 1,997

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