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5 Graduate Education Trends to Watch in 2025

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Undergraduate enrollment did well Before we address graduate trends, lets talk about the preliminary Fall 2024 undergraduate data recently released by National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). While first-year student enrollment contracted by 5 percent overall (and as much as 8.5 9 percent. 7 percent growth.

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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 fewer all online students in 2021 in comparison with only 1.8

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

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Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. million students), and the undercount grows to 75 percent for fully online students (missing 1.8 million students.)

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5 Graduate and Online Enrollment Trends to Watch in 2024

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Traditional undergraduate challenges remain National Student Clearinghouse 2023 fall enrollment data indicate that undergraduate enrollment grew for the first time in several years (+2.1%), but nearly all growth was driven by community colleges (+4.6%) offering dual enrollment courses. Source: IPEDS degree conferral data.

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5 Stats That Graduate Enrollment Leaders Need to Know

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How can you navigate the trends in graduate enrollment? As I did that, I wanted to address five statistics that keep coming up in my conversations with graduate enrollment leaders. Because CGS does not include some of the institutions with the largest online enrollment in the country, I had some concerns about these data.

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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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Cross-Training Enrollment Staff Today to Avoid the Employment Cliff Tomorrow

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In my last blog, Creating an Environment for Success , I shared strategies that enrollment leaders should employ to effectively manage their teams while meeting the challenges brought by declining student enrollment. Multiple specialized units (graduate, undergraduate, online, accelerated, adult, etc.)