Among Student Voice respondents who have ever seriously considered stopping out, 43 percent rate their mental health as below average or poor. Among those who have never considered stopping out, the rate is 23 percent.

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Just 27 percent of undergraduates describe their mental health as above average or excellent, according to new data from Inside Higher Ed ’s main annual Student Voice survey of more than 5,000 undergraduates at two- and four-year institutions.

Another 44 percent of students rate their mental health as average on a five-point scale. The remainder, 29 percent, rate it as below average or poor.

In last year’s main Student Voice survey, 42 percent of respondents rated their mental health as

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