Students are more likely to pursue college or trade school with dual credit.

That's according to a new report by the Kentucky Council on Post-secondary education.

Learn more about the results from the study in our segment.

Education matters.

Dual credit course is the course that you take, and many cases you take it in high school in that setting and you get college credit for it.

Most of them are what we call generally a transfer of courses like your English, the psychology, the humanities that transfers and the others.

Though you can take some if you are in the technical courses, like going to Kentucky community in technical colleges, whether it's welding, whether it's construction management or some of the others.

So both of those are covered.

We want them to be able to go to college at the most affordable price, to get the credential they need that is valuable and of quality, and to make sure that they get the jobs they need to get once they get out.

This study really comes out of us looking at how well are we doing in transitioning students to post-secondary and getting them out of post-secondary, and how well are we doing that with the lowest cost possible?

So this study around dual credit gives us some really solid data on this.

The more that we can help students get to this space and post-secondary full time by helping them to understand the importance of post-secondary matters.

This study points out, for an example, that if you take a dual credit course, you have a much greater chance of moving into post-secondary and graduating with post-secondary with less bit, as well as a higher GPA.

And this especially holds true for those that are under resourced.

So for an example, in 2016, as the study will show, we had about 23% of our high school students taking a dual credit course in passing with a C or higher.

Now we have 47.5%.

What we found out is that a fully credentialed high school teacher having access to a university or college where they get to visit and do it, and actually be credentialed by the college to do that course, is what we see as having the greater outcome.

The more you're exposed to an on campus environment, more you're exposed to see what is happening and it becomes less of a threat, if you will.

You know, less of a way of thinking about yourself.

Been an immigrant on my campus.

In that case, then the greater chance you have of actually seeing college as a possibility more students are looking at how can these courses help me transition to, a college campus, get through faster and get a job or have a double major?

So this report really points out some future possibilities of how we need to be thinking about aligning these courses more with a particular career than we've ever thought about.

So it as much as anything else, not a surprise, but a happy sort of outcome.

It gives us some new policy directions to think about.

By the year 2030, CPE is working towards ensuring 50% of high school students have graduated with a completed dual credit course and received a C grade or higher.