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Enrollment decline steepest in a decade; community colleges hit the hardest
Author(s) -
Hope Joan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the successful registrar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7560
pISSN - 1534-7710
DOI - 10.1002/tsr.30867
Subject(s) - spring (device) , demography , geography , demographic economics , political science , history , socioeconomics , economics , sociology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Enrollment for spring 2021 in the United States experienced a one‐year decline of 3.5% — or 603,000 students, according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Overall spring enrollment dropped to 16.9 million students, compared with 17.5 million in spring 2020. That's the steepest decline and largest student headcount drop since the Clearinghouse began publishing enrollment data a decade ago.