Ruffaloni
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The fall enrollment snapshot that we have relied on is undercounting online student by 75 percent among undergraduates and 44 percent among graduate students. million students), and the undercount grows to 75 percent for fully online students (missing 1.8 Other findings include: Fall snapshot data (fall 2019) missed a total of 5.6
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
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.
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.
Ruffaloni
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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
Ruffaloni
JUNE 28, 2023
The visualization below displays All F2F (face-to-face) classroom enrollment (blue), All Online (red), and Some Online who enrolled in some online and some classroom courses (green). We’ve added dotted lines that used the 2012-2019 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to project a “No Pandemic” view.
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. Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics.
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