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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thesis of this thread is incorrect.  It was a data error.

Freshman college enrollment was on the upswing in the fall, not declining as the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported in October, the prominent research group said Monday.

The organization, which produces widely used data on college enrollment, said a “methodological error” skewed its preliminary calculation of the number of first-year students who enrolled in fall 2024. The center initially said freshman enrollment dropped 5 percent, the first decline since the pandemic and an apparent indication of the fallout from the troubled rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

In a written statement, the center’s executive director, Doug Shapiro, said some students were mislabeled as dual-enrolled in high school and college classes, rather than as college freshmen, and “as a result, the number of freshmen was undercounted, and the number of dual-enrolled was overcounted.” The mistake inflated the number of high school students taking college classes through dual enrollment and affected the organization’s analysis of enrollment trends among 18-year-old freshmen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/14/college-freshman-enrollment-increase-data-error/[/quote]

Hilarious - no one even responded.  One simple Google search proved your correction accurate:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/05/22/college-enrollment--increases-again-approaching--pre-pandemic-levels/

Youtube link from OP?  7 months old
Forbes article?  May 2025
Numbers:

"The nation’s colleges and universities received good news on the enrollment front.

Total college enrollment grew by 3.2% this spring compared to spring 2024 and now stands at about 18.4 million students nationally, just 0.9% less than the prepandemic level of spring 2020. This year’s gain is equivalent to about 562,000 students.

The latest numbers are contained in the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Current Term Enrollment Estimates Spring 2025 report. Undergraduate enrollment grew 3.5%, reaching 15.3 million, which is about 2.4% (378,000 students) fewer than the pre-pandemic level..."

lol

Enrollment in graduate programs increased 1.5% (46,000 more students) compared to last year. Graduate enrollment now totals slightly more than 3.1 million, 7.2% higher than in 2020. That cumulative gain represents 209,000 more graduate students than the pre-pandemic number.
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