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TWO Demographic Cliffs? The Enrollment Case for Diversifying Revenue Streams

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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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What Drives Graduate Student Enrollment Decisions?

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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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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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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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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

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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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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

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Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. Increased competition Community college enrollment is facing several new external threats outside of the traditional competition from other colleges.

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California State University Enrollment Declines Continue After Pandemic Emergency

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California State University reported an enrollment decline of 6.5% Only four of the 23 campuses in the CSU system recorded enrollment growth from 2019-2022. However, there was positive growth in the enrollment of historically excluded groups, with increases in Latino/a and Black student enrollments on multiple campuses.

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Can Athletics Boost Enrollment at Small Colleges?

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A new study says small colleges investing in athletics might not realize enrollment growth. Some colleges have successfully used sports programs to increase enrollment. You've just become president of a small, private college with a shrinking enrollment and a meager endowment. Since 2020, nine D-III colleges have closed.