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5 Graduate Education Trends to Watch in 2025

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I am also concerned that the overall positive data may provide some institutions (particularly those with an historic focus on traditional undergraduates) a false sense of security that results in lessening the urgency of growing robust, market-driven graduate offerings. They now represent about 1 in 6 graduate students.

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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

Ruffaloni

Enrollment factors for graduate students In the survey, students are asked to indicate the level of importance they assign to a variety of potential factors in their decision to enroll. Your admissions team will want to be ready to help students understand how your online program can benefit them in all of these critical ways.

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Is Online Education Really in Trouble? No, and Here Is Why!

Ruffaloni

Department of Education has finally released its first look into the 2022-2023 academic year. Their IPEDS snapshot data showcase how many students were enrolled in different types of programs on a given fall semester day. My news headline would be “Millions More Students Continue to Choose Fully Online/Some Online Study.”

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5 Stats That Graduate Enrollment Leaders Need to Know

Ruffaloni

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. How can you win the graduate market?

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Phil Hill Talks About the Impact of New IPEDS Data on Institutions and EdTech

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million undergraduate students and more than 440,000 graduate students missing from the fall census data. Scott Jeffe: It was interesting to me that you point out that almost all of these additional students chose to enroll in either all online courses (“all distance”) or some online courses (“one or more distance”).

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5 Graduate and Online Enrollment Trends to Watch in 2024

Ruffaloni

Online is already leading graduate degree production My own analysis of 2023 calendar year IPEDs degree production data indicate that master’s degree conferrals among programs available online (495,0227) exceeded conferrals in classroom-only programs (396,843) by nearly 100,000. Source: IPEDS degree conferral data.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Ruffaloni

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.