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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]https://www.catholicherald.com/article/local/largest-class-in-marymounts-history/[/url]

Well, this article says they just enrolled the largest class ever. Hopefully things will continue to go in the right direction. The beginning of seeing a return on their investment.[/quote]

I saw this link to VA Higher Ed in another thread and pulled up Marymount from the drop down box.

https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=Enrollment.ExcludingDE&rdRequestForwarding=Form

It shows their base enrollment has been declining for a number of years. It was 2,256 in 2018 and has declined each year since and shows 1,815 for the 2024-2025 year. I’m not understanding how they can claim record enrollment for 2024-2025. Maybe they are including high school dual enrollment students in their totals but that is a bit misleading. This same table shows they used to have around 30 or so dual enrollment students a year and have increased it to 690 for the 2024-2025 school year. I don’t think these students pay for classes, and definitely aren’t full time paying students. My son’s high school has dual enrollment with another university and they don’t pay for classes.

So the school is boasting record enrollment yet 30% of that population are non paying high school dual enrollment students? Seems to be a bit of creative accounting/marketing. They don’t actually state this fall’s enrollment number in the Catholic Higher Ed article either which is interesting. They only talk about applicant numbers and inquiries.

The bigger concern is obviously the drop in tuition revenue from a decline of 450 full time students (20% drop). How are they making up that $18,000,000 based on tuition at 40k/student and how long can the school sustain these declines?

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