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From University of Hawai‘i News:

Hawaiʻi is among the nation’s best when it comes to community college students who transfer to a four-year university and earn their bachelor’s degrees, according to a report by the Community College Research Center. The 10-campus UH system is the sole provider of public higher education in the state.

The report found that 58% of UH community college students in 2015 who transferred to UH Mānoa, UH Hilo or UH West Oʻahu earned a bachelorʻs degree within six years. Hawaiʻi is one of only eight states to have outperformed the national average, and also had a 57% completion rate for UH transfer students from low-income families, 5% above the national average for this population.

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