A nationwide initiative to encourage engineering majors to stick with the subject and earn a degree in the field was unveiled Wednesday at Georgia Tech.
The Stay With It campaign creates an online community and provides other resources to connect students with peer engineering majors and experienced engineers. The program is part of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which is working to produce 10,000 more engineering graduates each year.
Nationally, only 14 percent of undergraduate students enroll in math, science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs and 40 percent leave after their first year.
At Georgia Tech 94 percent of the freshmen stay after their first year and 80 percent graduate within six years.
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