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PBS News Hour

4-year colleges offer 2-year degrees to reach more students

Season 2025 Episode 336 | 8m 21s

About one in four college students is both first-generation and from low-income backgrounds, making the path to a college degree especially challenging. At Boston College’s Messina College, a new, two-year, fully residential associates degree program, a wide range of support is helping change that. John Yang visited the campus to learn more as part of our ongoing series, Rethinking College.

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