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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

Ruffaloni

Given the fact that millions of students were forced into online (or emergency remote) instruction, the most important issue will likely be the instructional format choices of graduate students. We’ve added dotted lines that used the 2012-2019 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to project a “No Pandemic” view.

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5 Stats That Graduate Enrollment Leaders Need to Know

Ruffaloni

Two competing—and contradictory—reports have been released in the last 30 days that seek to portray the state of the graduate education market, and my own analysis of the most recent IPEDS completions data are adding to our understanding of graduate enrollment trends. percent among CGS member schools.

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Where Is the Graduate Education Market Headed?

Ruffaloni

Programs need to serve students whose expectations have changed dramatically. Earlier this month, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released their annual “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees 2012-2022” report. The headline in Inside Higher Education was that graduate enrollment contracted by 4.7

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Ruffaloni

Graduate students were far more likely to return to their pre-pandemic format in 2021. In the chart above, we see that while 638,000 additional graduate students were pushed into all online (or “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 349,000 of them decided not to continue in this format in fall 2021.

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Majority of California College Students Eligible for CalFresh Do Not Enroll: Report

BestColleges

A new report found that a majority of eligible California college students do not receive CalFresh benefits. Only 30% of eligible community college students, 22% of eligible UC undergraduates, and 29% of eligible UC graduate students were enrolled in CalFresh in fall 2019.

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First-Generation College Students: Facts and Statistics

BestColleges

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), around 37% of undergraduate college students were first-generation in 2016. Note Reference [1] For comparison, roughly 18% of students identified as the first person in their immediate family to go to college in 2011-2012. [3]

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Best Psychology Programs in the World

Ivy Central

Today the Department has 27 faculty members, and 74 graduate students. The graduate students are trained in four major research programs: Cognition, Brain, & Behavior; Developmental Psychology; Social Psychology; and Clinical Science. Psychology is the most popular field of study for undergraduate students.

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