Less than 50% of all college students graduate. Here is the help they need

– A new web-portal provides all the help the students need

A lot of young people are having their dreams and plans destroyed because they never graduate from the college education they have started. And it has only become worse after the COVID-19 outbreak.

According to OECD less than 50% of college students on average graduate. Not only do they have their dreams and plans destroyed, but many are also left with huge debts.

There are similar low graduation rates among MBA, eMBA, and Ph.D. students

FindSupervisor.com is a new portal committed to help these students

FindSupervisor is a new portal where students can find supervisors, who can coach them both academically, personally, and professionally. All the supervisors have been through the process of writing dissertations under extreme pressure and they have found different successful ways to face and solve these challenges. Subsequently, they can pass on their experiences to the people, who need them most – the next generation of graduates.

FindSupervisor.com is founded and funded by Dr. Finn Majlergaard, who was under extreme pressure when he had to write his own doctoral dissertation. Giving up was not an option, so he had to develop a method to become as effective as possible in the research and writing process. Later he has helped numerous students through the challenging dissertation writing process

Finn Majlergaard: “I feel a great pleasure in having had the opportuynity to help some MBA and DBA students through this very challenging process. I also know that there are many thousands students who don’t get the help they need and I know there are thousands of qualified independent supervisors. So I have invested some resources in bringing this portal to life“

On FindSupervisor.com the Supervisors and the students agree on the financial terms themselves. FindSupervisor.com only facilitates the contact. Some supervisors might want to do it for free, while others will have a variable or fixed fee structure.

We also invite a wide range of service providers to make listings on FindSupervisor. It can for instance be publishers, recruiters, proofreaders, coaches, etc.

Students don’t quit because they can’t handle the academic level

According to a study from the Gates Foundation, only 34% dropped out because it was too difficult. The majority, 71% dropped out because they had to work.

We know from our own surveys among adults who pursue MBA, eMBA, DBA, and Ph.D. programs that they drop out because it can overload oneself pursuing simultaneously a post-graduate degree, a full-time job while often, caring for a family with young children. Younger students have other challenges usually concerning financing and change of direction in life.

By getting a supervisor who can relate to all these dilemmas and concurrently coach the students on how to get through the challenges, we believe we can make a lot more students graduate.

All the experiences people who have succeeded in graduating can make a difference for the next generation.

Finn Majlergaards’s message is clear: “Sign up and create a listing offering your help if you feel you are a qualified dissertation supervisor. If you can provide other services to the students, then make a service provider listing. We all have the responsibility to take care of the next generation“