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A systematic study of one hundred eight students who were diagnosed as schizophrenic by University Mental Health Service over a five-year period is reported. This group was compared with controls who were matched for sex and class standing and who had come to the health service for general medical attention. For the psychotic students, the dropout rate was three times as high as for the control group. In general, these students took longer to graduate, had poor grades, and a greater number did not graduate at all. However, the wide scatter observed in grade achievement in the study group does indicate that some schizophrenics can do very well academically. A larger than expected number of psychotic students were in the graduate divisions of the University.
The professional time required by these students was greatly out of proportion to their numbers. What is not clear in this study is some measure of the effectiveness of the University Mental Health Service in helping these students and what influence this service had on the statistics used. A hint is obtained from the observation that when the mental health service was involved in the decision for readmission following dropout, the returning students did, for the most part, function well.