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There is another issue here.
If you can afford it and want to take some extra time to graduate, so be it.
On the other hand, some schools have been accused of making it difficult through scheduling, lack of required class offerings and other alleged methods for a student to graduate in four years. At her first university the daughter I mentioned above was told that it would take a minimum of 4 1/2 years to complete her course of study. They demanded a lot of one credit hour courses which were only offered one semester per year and other little tricks like that. In the end, she switched schools and majors and graduated in four. But it was hard.
In some states there were moves a few years ago to withhold funds to state supported universities unless a certain percentage of students graduated in four years. I don't know whether any state actually did that.
From a consumer perspective (someone who is paying for my childrens' education), a "four year degree" should be just that as far as a school in concerned. If they purposly make it difficult or impossible for that to happen, they should be taken to task.
As I said above, if a student wants to take a few extra classes and stay longer and they or their parents can afford it, that's another story.
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