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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. 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

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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. million more undergraduate students decided to enroll in all or some online courses than in 2019—with those opting for “some online” outpacing “all online”. Compare this with 3.2

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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

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Last month, I presented overview data documenting how satisfied graduate and online students are with their chosen programs, but this month I want to focus on how these data can help recruitment leaders in planning strategies that can optimally position institutions and programs for success.

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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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5 Graduate Education Trends to Watch in 2025

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While the first-year numbers present serious challenges for institutions, these numbers do not put any immediate additional pressure on graduate programs to grow for the sake of institutional health. Institutions must be sure they understand how to attract domestic students to their programs. Why am I concerned?

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

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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.