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Yes, Where You Go To College Matters

Ivy Coach

Yes, Where You Go To College Matters Originally Published on October 24, 2019: There’s a common refrain in elite college admissions. It goes like this: “It doesn’t matter where your child goes to college. All that matters is that your child is happy.”

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

Ruffaloni

Below we summarize the topline data and at the end of this blog we present more detailed data by sector of institution using 2019-2020 academic year data (rather than 2020-21 which saw dramatic change due to the pandemic). Other findings include: Fall snapshot data (fall 2019) missed a total of 5.6 million students.) million students.)

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Is Online Education Really in Trouble? No, and Here Is Why!

Ruffaloni

Where we really are Since the pandemic, I’ve been using IPEDS data to track changes in student format choices not through a year over year (YoY) comparison, but rather by comparing each year to 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year). We use this methodology to present net new/additional students by format on the right side of Figures 3 and 4.

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5 Graduate Education Trends to Watch in 2025

Ruffaloni

There is no such thing as tried and true graduate programs We used the IPEDS degree production data to see which masters programs 1) produce the largest numbers of degrees, and 2) grew the most over the last years (2019-2023). These degree areas were not even on the radar in 2019. Critically important patterns emerged.

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California Community College Students Struggle With Food, Housing Insecurity: Survey

BestColleges

While food insecurity rates have declined slightly since the last survey in 2019, housing insecurity remains a prominent issue. Two out of every 3 California community college students face at least one basic needs insecurity, including food and housing insecurity, according to a recent report from the Community College League of California.

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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

Ruffaloni

For the 21,487 graduate students from 96 institutions who completed the ASPS between the fall of 2019 and the spring of 2022, these are the levels of importance associated with each enrollment factor: Graduate students place the greatest emphasis on academic reputation of the institution, but cost is an important consideration as well.

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

Ruffaloni

We’ve added dotted lines that used the 2012-2019 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to project a “No Pandemic” view. In fact, if you compare 2019 with 2021, 374,000 fewer students selected All F2F, 289,000 more selected All Online, and more 215,000 more selected Some Online courses. degree-granting institutions of at least two years.)