Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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). My news headline would be “Millions More Students Continue to Choose Fully Online/Some Online Study.”

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 30, 2023

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. Your admissions team will want to be ready to help students understand how your online program can benefit them in all of these critical ways.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. million students), and the undercount grows to 75 percent for fully online students (missing 1.8 million students.)

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Ruffaloni

JUNE 28, 2023

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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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. This can all be found when you look at those enrollment differences by instructional format chosen by students.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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Non-Degree Students Online Programs Enrollment Financial Aid 182