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Report Reveals ‘Weak Connection’ Between Debt and Earnings Outcomes for Graduate Students

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Between 2004 and 2016, the percentage of graduate students who borrowed $80,000 or more rose from 1% to nearly 11%. Earnings have remained mostly stagnant for graduate degree-holders over the last 20 years, when adjusted for inflation.

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Graduate Student Unionization Efforts, List, and Statistics

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Data Summary Check In July 2021, there were roughly 124,500 student workers represented in higher education unions. [1] 1] Check Across the nation, graduate student union dues typically range from 1.5-2.5% How to Become a Union Member Why Do Students Unionize? How to Become a Union Member Why Do Students Unionize?

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

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Given the fact that millions of students were forced into online (or emergency remote) instruction, the most important issue will likely be the instructional format choices of graduate students. We’ve added dotted lines that used the 2012-2019 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to project a “No Pandemic” view.

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5 Stats That Graduate Enrollment Leaders Need to Know

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Two competing—and contradictory—reports have been released in the last 30 days that seek to portray the state of the graduate education market, and my own analysis of the most recent IPEDS completions data are adding to our understanding of graduate enrollment trends. percent among CGS member schools.

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Where Is the Graduate Education Market Headed?

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Programs need to serve students whose expectations have changed dramatically. Earlier this month, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released their annual “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees 2012-2022” report. The headline in Inside Higher Education was that graduate enrollment contracted by 4.7

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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Graduate students were far more likely to return to their pre-pandemic format in 2021. In the chart above, we see that while 638,000 additional graduate students were pushed into all online (or “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 349,000 of them decided not to continue in this format in fall 2021.

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First-Generation College Students: Facts and Statistics

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According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), around 37% of undergraduate college students were first-generation in 2016. Note Reference [1] For comparison, roughly 18% of students identified as the first person in their immediate family to go to college in 2011-2012. [3]