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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 additional undergraduates were pushed into all online (or for many “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 2.5 million undergraduates made the decision to enroll in all face-to-face (F2F) classroom students in 2021, after 5.9 million fewer all online students in 2021 in comparison with only 1.8 percent per year).

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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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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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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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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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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

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This is valuable information for recruitment and enrollment leaders to consider in informing how to position your institution in marketing materials. Enrollment factors for graduate students In the survey, students are asked to indicate the level of importance they assign to a variety of potential factors in their decision to enroll.

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