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

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Department of Education has finally released its first look into the 2022-2023 academic year. Their IPEDS snapshot data showcase how many students were enrolled in different types of programs on a given fall semester day. My news headline would be “Millions More Students Continue to Choose Fully Online/Some Online Study.”

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5 Graduate Education Trends to Watch in 2025

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The outlook for graduate education in 2025 is strong. I also keep an eye on the analogous undergraduate trends to see if graduate (and/or online) education will be called upon to shore of institutional health even more than it has over the last few years. These degree areas were not even on the radar in 2019.

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

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Having focused on the returning adult student for more than 20 years, I have often thought that 12-month (academic year) unduplicated headcount data better portray adult student participation in higher education than the fall snapshot data that is commonly used to understand of the “shape” of the market. million students.) million students.)

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Three Stats That Signal the Transformation of Higher Education

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Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics. While the November blog indicated that Snapshot Data undercounted total enrollment by nearly 6 million students in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), I didn’t go too far into where these missing students were hidden.

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Phil Hill Talks About the Impact of New IPEDS Data on Institutions and EdTech

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Phil Hill : A big part of writing both the blog on the 2019-20 data and the 2020-21 data blog (on the need to focus on 12-month unduplicated enrollment rather than fall snapshot) was to point out how much we’ve needed this type of data. Read the 2022 Online Program Marketing Practices Report.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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In order to assess the new 2021 data in comparison with pre-pandemic trends, I calculated the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2012 and 2019 for each of the formats students are choosing. Here’s what I found: Undergraduate: Prior to the pandemic undergraduates who chose to enroll in all online courses had been growing by 6.5

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

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With almost all graduate students now having some experience with online instruction, the big unknown is what I call “the Mikey Affect” ( after the famous Life cereal commercial ): the proportion of students who, having tried online education, liked it enough to continue with it.