In McCabe's five-year follow-up study, only about 25 percent of friends from college remained friends in participants' after-college networks.
Sources
- How your college friendships help you (theconversation.com)
- https://www.alternet.org/2016/12/value-college-friendships (alternet.org)
- https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/12/how-your-college-friendships-help-you-or-dont (home.dartmouth.edu)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/how-hold-adult-friends-you-value-let-go-ones-you-ncna1010526 (nbcnews.com)
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