We could start a whole thread about reasonably well known private colleges with fairly low four year grad rates.
In HPU’s favor, it isn’t terribly expensive for a private U. Or at least, it’s a lot less than $80k a year, which is common at highly selective colleges these days. And they seem to award about 40% of freshmen some kind of scholarship, which is also not a bad thing.
There were a few nuggets in this thread from the spring: High Point University stats vs opinion
In particular, the appointment of the new Dean of the law school raised a few eyebrows. https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/high-point/high-point-universitys-new-law-school-dean-reportedly-helped-trump-fight-2020-election-results/
I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole in trying to find out more about Qubein. His supporters have a lot of faith in him, clearly, as the university received $100 million in donations and has been expanding like crazy. I acknowledge that generous scholarships will make a difference to a lot of students. Given their aggressive expansion and advertising blitz, it won’t be surprising if it does become a better university at some point.