Balancing work and school is too difficult.
Having to work is the number-one reason college students drop out, cited by 71 percent of students who left school.1 It’s just too difficult to find time for both. Struggling to work and study in the first year of college is often a sign that a student will not be able to get his or her degree. Of those students who failed to graduate, more than 6 in 10 said the statement “I had to work as well, and it was too stressful trying to do both” described their first year of school.2