College enrollment ticks up ...

[Anonymous]

Higher-ed enrollment increased by 2 percent this fall as colleges powered through concerns about prices, politicization, value, and visas.

This rising tide didn’t lift all boats equally, according to a report released today by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Undergraduate enrollment climbed by 2.4 percent, buoyed by a 4-percent increase at community colleges. Graduate enrollment didn’t change substantially. Master’s programs sank by 0.6 percent. Doctoral programs picked up 1.1 percent more students.

Lower-income students posted the strongest growth. Enrollment increased by 3.3 percent from the poorest fifth of neighborhoods and by just 1 percent from the wealthiest fifth.

Undergraduates appear to be growing more racially diverse. White undergraduate enrollment fell by 3.7 percent, Asian enrollment was flat, and all other racial demographics jumped by about 3 percent. But take the racial breakdowns with a grain of salt, because the share of students whose race wasn’t reported spiked by more than 20 percent for the second straight year.

But computer science is cratering. Four-year undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences plunged by 7.7 percent this fall — and it decreased almost twice as fast at the graduate level. The Clearinghouse data doesn’t say why, but it’s hard to ignore recent gluts of tech-company layoffs and questions about artificial intelligence taking coders’ jobs in a discipline that’s proven subject to ebbs and flows.

“This is a truly eye-opening decline,” said Matthew Holsapple, senior director of research at the National Student Clearinghouse. “This follows several years of notable increases in computer-science enrollment.”

The bigger picture: The enrollment cliff wasn’t yet due to arrive, because 2025 represents peak high-school graduate. Even so, the preliminary indications of the soft graduate-education market, listless growth among wealthy students, and swings in which programs are popular could mean major shifts reshaping higher ed.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/as-headwinds-abound-college-enrollment-ticks-up-this-fall

[Anonymous]

Interesting that college grads are getting more racially diverse, enrollment of whites is falling.

[Anonymous]

How many whites are now checking the box to not disclose race? I wouldn’t disclose if it gave me a disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

Kids who can't find entry level jobs go to community college

[Anonymous]

Are the racial demographics segmented by international students vs. americans?

[Anonymous]

Fall 2006 and 2007 had more births than in 2008

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many whites are now checking the box to not disclose race? I wouldn’t disclose if it gave me a disadvantage.

Why not? You want Sara Smith to be Asian?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids who can't find entry level jobs go to community college

Yeah, a lot of this report is “the economy is a disaster, so people who would otherwise take low-skill jobs right out of high school are going to college instead.” When retail and restaurants are closing, and no one’s starting new construction … there are worse things to do than enroll at the local community college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that college grads are getting more racially diverse, enrollment of whites is falling.

Not really. Demographics in the younger generation are shifting. Soon, minorities will become the majority.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu-sn&hs=6gJ&sca_esv=77dc914585b7f4b2&channel=fs&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeioyp3OhN11EY0n5qfq-zENyQuF3_WaPI4Qgb6AZzy-etFjo9fqZ_m1LmwOk0Tw7Np9HwwdNhPd1BmlpFc4GqYbc05FHHAevi9bMoMFwDkENXn9c3G1Vxck12qnzeT9XvGenMO7m-REYQaOO9yTAyrMp8jbzpKgIQNLw3GHkn19Q9aWhew&q=demographics+gen+z+and+below&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj39Yzo6-qQAxW5FlkFHZ8ZLhkQtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1382&bih=752&dpr=2.22#vhid=i-tpmD52rglzDM&vssid=mosaic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that college grads are getting more racially diverse, enrollment of whites is falling.

Not really. Demographics in the younger generation are shifting. Soon, minorities will become the majority.
https://usafacts.org/articles/who-is-gen-z/

[Anonymous]

lol...whites and asians checking the "decline to say" box. Even post-SFFA there is little trust in colleges admissions being race neutral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol...whites and asians checking the "decline to say" box. Even post-SFFA there is little trust in colleges admissions being race neutral.

We checked it this year since Trump wants the data at my kid’s top choices. White. They want to be careful with merit-based admits. So it benefited to actually check the box thus year.

We did not check it in 2024 first year of SC ruling.