Illinois Business Daily

Chicago State University’s (CSU) recent acknowledgement of an 11 percent graduation rate makes it among the lowest even when compared to similar schools, according to one researcher.

“As an institution who accepts a lot of students who are coming to college ... with backgrounds that indicate they are going to struggle in college ... it’s not surprising that their graduation rates are so low,” Elaine Allensworth, director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago told Illinois Business Daily...