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TWO Demographic Cliffs? The Enrollment Case for Diversifying Revenue Streams

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Revised population estimates—the first to be built on the 2020 (rather than the 2010) census data—indicate another demographic cliff in the number of 18-year-olds that will almost immediately follow the first one. Department of Education (IPEDS) projections for first-year students now, in 2020, and in 2016 in orange.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Ruffaloni

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 of them had left fully classroom study in 2020. Further, only an additional 1.8

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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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What Drives Graduate Student Enrollment Decisions?

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RNL graduate student data helps institutions better target graduate students Cost and flexible program options are two of the biggest enrollment factors. Do you know why your graduate students choose to enroll at your institution? Five observations 1. The cost of the program is a driving factor for students.

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

Ruffaloni

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 Can You Engage the Families of Current Students?

Ruffaloni

The findings of our 2023 report (which reflects 21,860 responses from 35 different institutions across the US) show which channels families prefer when receiving communications from the colleges and universities their students are enrolled at. However, families also remain very involved once the student enrolls.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

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Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. Increased competition Community college enrollment is facing several new external threats outside of the traditional competition from other colleges.