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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Ruffaloni

million additional undergraduates were pushed into all online (or for many “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 2.5 million undergraduates made the decision to enroll in all face-to-face (F2F) classroom students in 2021, after 5.9 million of them had left fully classroom study in 2020. Further, only an additional 1.8

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TWO Demographic Cliffs? The Enrollment Case for Diversifying Revenue Streams

Ruffaloni

Revised population estimates—the first to be built on the 2020 (rather than the 2010) census data—indicate another demographic cliff in the number of 18-year-olds that will almost immediately follow the first one. Department of Education (IPEDS) projections for first-year students now, in 2020, and in 2016 in orange.

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

Ruffaloni

The fall enrollment snapshot that we have relied on is undercounting online student by 75 percent among undergraduates and 44 percent among graduate students. Here’s what we found: Undergraduate : Among undergraduate students enrolling in all formats of study, fall snapshot data undercount total enrollment by 34 percent (missing 5.6

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

Ruffaloni

What is the long term impact of the pandemic on graduate enrollment? I wanted to hold off providing an answer until we have the 2021 academic year data, knowing that the real answer will only come with a few more years of enrollment trend data. Source: RNL Analysis of IPEDS Fall Enrollment Snapshot data.

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The enrollment cliff crisis: How to pivot, not panic

Niche

Were talking about that dreaded enrollment cliff , and its no longer impending. Higher ed has started to feel the brunt of a steady decline in enrollment, a trend underscored by recent data. The most significant driver of the higher education enrollment cliff is the sharp decline in birth rates following the 2008 economic recession.

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What Drives Graduate Student Enrollment Decisions?

Ruffaloni

RNL graduate student data helps institutions better target graduate students Cost and flexible program options are two of the biggest enrollment factors. Do you know why your graduate students choose to enroll at your institution? Five observations 1. The cost of the program is a driving factor for students.

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Deferred Admission: What You Need to Know

Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

Our most viewed blog of 2020 was What does being deferred mean? Im sure some of those views were heightened by the pandemic and the uncertainty surrounding college enrollment at the time. So, lets take another stab at this with the pandemic-aspect removed and a bit more stability in the college enrollment world.