4. Comparison with attrition rates for other HE students
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Improving Student Retention: Guidelines and Good Practice

4. Comparison with attrition rates for other HE students

Improving Student Retention: Guidelines and Good Practice

4.1 Attrition rates for healthcare students are lower than  those for HE students studying other subjects (DH 2006).

4.2 According to figures from academic year 2004-05, Medicine and Dentistry have the highest continuation rates and combined subject degrees, Mathematical and Computer Sciences having the lowest rates among all undergraduates (NAO 2007).

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