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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

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What is the long term impact of the pandemic on graduate enrollment? I wanted to hold off providing an answer until we have the 2021 academic year data, knowing that the real answer will only come with a few more years of enrollment trend data. Source: RNL Analysis of IPEDS Fall Enrollment Snapshot data.

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

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The fall enrollment snapshot that we have relied on is undercounting online student by 75 percent among undergraduates and 44 percent among graduate students. Here’s what we found: Undergraduate : Among undergraduate students enrolling in all formats of study, fall snapshot data undercount total enrollment by 34 percent (missing 5.6

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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million undergraduates made the decision to enroll in all face-to-face (F2F) classroom students in 2021, after 5.9 A number of these students enrolled in the “some online” category, but others did not return, leading to a continuation of the contraction in undergraduate enrollment. million students in 2019.

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Denver Christian School (CO) Partners with Enrollment Catalyst

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Please welcome the Denver Christian School team to Enrollment Catalyst! DCS has experienced exponential growth over the past several years, increasing from 565 students in 2019-20 to 865 students in 2022-23. Dr. Rick Newberry conducted a three day site visit in February 2023 to begin his Enrollment Catalyst Program with their team.

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Maximizing the Enrollment Impact of Your Media Spend Using Full-Funnel Attribution

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According to a 2021 RNL survey of more than 100 graduate marketing leaders , between 2019 and 2021 the average digital marketing spend doubled. Digital marketing is not hard, but executing a strategy that drives enrollment (the only stage that generates revenue) is challenging. This reality was not surprising. 6 percent).

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

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Their IPEDS snapshot data showcase how many students were enrolled in different types of programs on a given fall semester day. While these are important data, I have previously written that the best data on format preferences reflect enrollment over the full 12-month academic year. Undergraduate In 2022 more than 2.2

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5 Graduate Education Trends to Watch in 2025

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Undergraduate enrollment did well Before we address graduate trends, lets talk about the preliminary Fall 2024 undergraduate data recently released by National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). While first-year student enrollment contracted by 5 percent overall (and as much as 8.5 a less interesting place in which to enroll.

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