BestColleges

JANUARY 23, 2024

Several colleges and universities recently have announced similar cuts, eviscerating the liberal arts in response to budget shortfalls, enrollment declines, and shifting student preferences. In many cases, low enrollment drove these decisions. From 2012-2018, the number of bachelor's degrees earned in the humanities fell by 27%.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 27, 2023

College officials call this demographic phenomenon the "enrollment cliff." Enrollments have been dropping for a decade and cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic. To make matters even worse, a dangerous precipice looms on the near horizon, a demographic phenomenon known as the enrollment cliff. What Is the Enrollment Cliff?

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BestColleges

MARCH 28, 2023

Data Summary Check Over one-third of undergraduates in a bachelor's degree program (about 37%) were first-generation college students in 2016. [1] Check Only 26% of first-generation college students went on to get their degree. [2] Check Only 26% of first-generation college students went on to get their degree. [2]

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BestColleges

MAY 3, 2023

Data Summary Check Roughly 54% of Asians and Asian Americans ages 25 and older had a bachelor's degree or higher in 2019, however, this figure varies widely by origin group. [1] had a bachelor's degree or higher. [2] 2] Check The majority of Indian degree holders had a postgraduate degree.

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BestColleges

APRIL 17, 2024

The University of Colorado Boulder has significantly increased female undergraduate enrollment in its fall 2023 cohort. In one study conducted in 2012 , faculty at research universities rated applications from male students as more competent than equally qualified applications from women.

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BestColleges

JUNE 4, 2024

This gap forces students and their families to borrow more or to shift enrollment to lower-cost colleges. In addition, 82% of bachelor's degree recipients who had no student loan debt as of 2012 felt that college was worth the cost, compared with 70% of those with some student loan debt. Growing student loan debt.

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Tex Admissions

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Public Service Announcement: Enrolling at Austin Community College (ACC) does not improve your UT transfer chances. Others enroll at a great university, but the major they come to love isn’t offered there, so they must switch campuses to pursue their new interest. Note: this post is for External Transfers who are not UT students.

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