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Key Points For How Old You Are When You Graduate College The average graduation age is 23.7 years old. The average age to start college is about 18.5 years old. The average time to complete a 4-year degree is 5.2 years. 23.5% of bachelor's degree earners take more than 4 years to finish.

If a student is 16 or 17 years old and wants to stop attending high school, they may take steps necessary to be granted permission from their Board of Trustees to take, and pass, the High School Equivalency (HSE) test.

In Nevada, students may attend a comprehensive public school until age 21; or, from age 18, they may attend an adult high school program.

Generally, most public and private schools will allow students to come back to finish their high school courses before they're 21 but once they hit that age, they need to find other options to get their diploma. For some, that means pursuing a high school equivalency credential.

Nevada requires children between the ages of seven and seventeen to attend school, and parents whose children are absent too often could be subject to misdemeanor criminal charges.

Lela Burden received an honorary high school diploma at the age of 111, which makes Burden the oldest high school graduate in the world. Burden originally attended Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia in 1918.

California students may drop out legally once they turn 18. Students who are 16 or 17 may also leave school, but only if they: have their parents' permission, and. pass the California High School Proficiency Exam, which leads to a certificate that's equivalent to a diploma (more on that below).