Universities have a major impact on the attendance, grades, and graduation rates of their students (115). Therefore, the better the correlation between attending a college and a higher grade point average at the school level and, ultimately, a higher graduation rate. With these tracking devices, universities will be able to monitor and discipline their students if they miss classes. Therefore, optimistically increasing attendance rates leads to the primary goal of a higher graduation rate. In fact, when parents and children look for a college, one of an institution's primary outcomes is a high graduation rate. Additionally, some college students may argue that a college's degree choices are a more important issue than that institution's graduation rate. In reality it's the opposite. Graduation rate demonstrates a student's likelihood of being successful in their chosen field over a four-year period. Therefore, this can bring the topic of parents getting a return on their investment back into the spotlight. With students succeeding and graduating in four years, this allows them to directly enter the workforce and begin paying off those dreaded student loans. Furthermore, one of the university's main priorities is to surround its students in a safe environment. With the rate of missing college students on the rise,
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