Postsecondary Education

We have a strategy on how to increase the nation's number of young people with a degree.

In the documents below, we outline the challenges in postsecondary education—as well as our approach and planned investments. Read more about the Postsecondary Education Success Plan:

• Executive Summary
  (2 pages, 248 KB, PDF)
• Complete Report
  (12 pages, 3.7 MB, PDF)

In an era when workers can be located anywhere on the globe, a college degree or training beyond high school is required for the best-paying jobs. Read more about how the foundation is trying to increase college graduation rates among low-income students.

• Financial Aid
  (PDF, 98KB, 4 pages)
• Technology
  (PDF, 46KB, 3 pages)
• Improving Postsecondary Success
  (PDF, 69KB, 6 pages)
• Postsecondary Success Fact Sheet
  (PDF, 776KB, 2 pages)

Most Recent: Melinda Gates speaking on the need to improve remedial education.

Read more remarks by foundation co-chairs on postsecondary education:

• Bill Gates
• Melinda Gates
• William H. Gates, Sr.

From Hilary Pennington, director of Special Initiatives in the United States Program, who leads the foundation’s Postsecondary Education initiative:

• At ACE
• A Forum on Education in America