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Competency‐based degrees: Another way to grow the enrollment pie?

Author(s) -

Dennis Marguerite J.

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

enrollment management report

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1945-6263

pISSN - 1094-3757

DOI - 10.1002/emt.30249

Subject(s) - quarter (canadian coin) , unit (ring theory) , sitting , population , medical education , psychology , demography , mathematics education , demographic economics , gerontology , geography , political science , medicine , sociology , economics , archaeology , pathology

The majority of colleges and universities in the United States award credit based on the Carnegie Unit, which has been in place for more than a century. Currently, only 29 percent of students enrolled in colleges and universities are “traditional” 18–22‐year‐olds, enrolling directly after high school. And a quarter of all college students in the United States are over the age of 30. For this older, working, nontraditional population, sitting in a classroom for four, five, or six years is just not a viable option.

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