Dive Summary:

• Utah colleges are offering tuition breaks to out-of-state students to make up for residents delaying their education to serve as Mormon missionaries.
• The church lowered the minimum age for missionaries to 18 and colleges feared that would lead to big drops in enrollment, but they have been able to offset some of that decline by offering in-state tuition to top students from other states, as allowed by a law passed in March.
• Utah State University feared an enrollment drop of 1,400 students this fall; instead, the decline has been limited to less than 500.

From the article:

... Educators also are concerned about the number of students who start college but don't finish in two or four years. ... "Right now, Utah is No. 2 in the country for the percentage who have some college without a degree," Utah's higher-education commissioner, David Buhler, told legislators last week. "I'm not real proud of that." ...