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• A Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2024 State of Higher Education Study conducted in the fall of last year found that 35% of 14,032 current and prospective students polled reported that they thought about leaving their program in the past six months.

• Of those students, 54% reported emotional stress and 43% reported mental health as the reason they wanted to drop out.

• Students getting their bachelor's degree were more likely to say they were pausing their studies because of emotional stress (67%) or personal mental health reasons (56%).

(NewsNation) — More than one-third of........

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