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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Ruffaloni

The data are in IPEDS Fall 2021 Snapshot Data, like so many other things this past year, suffered from the “supply chain shortage” and were more than four months late in being published. Undergraduate students did not return to classroom settings in Fall 2021. million decided not to continue in this format in fall 2021.

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Three Stats That Signal the Transformation of Higher Education

Ruffaloni

Enrollment patterns did not “snap back” in 2021 As much as commentators and experts have indicated that the pandemic would be a transformative event, dozens of people have told me that they were expecting a relatively quick return to “normal” regarding student instructional format choices. I’ll report on 2021 12-month data later.)

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Online Learners: Generational Influences on Expectations and Satisfaction

Ruffaloni

There has been greater awareness in recent years of the influence of generational differences in higher education, and this made me interested to explore the perceptions of students by age within our National Online Learners dataset. The total data represents 101,925 student records from 153 institutions.

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Online Program Managers: What Are OPMs in Higher Education?

BestColleges

Online program managers coordinate and run online degree programs for many colleges and universities. Online program managers — sometimes referred to as online program management companies — exist to provide online education services for more traditional colleges and universities.

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Is Online Education Really in Trouble? No, and Here Is Why!

Ruffaloni

There are three important findings: Undergraduate enrollment continued its decline but slowed to -2 percent (see Figure 1) Graduate enrollment contracted by 1 percent—the first time in a decade (Figure 2) Students opting to enroll in all online or some online courses also contracted (Figures 1 and 2).

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Online Bachelor’s Programs Are Your Greatest Market Opportunity

Ruffaloni

“Choosing to only offer classroom bachelor’s programs will not force students seeking online study to choose between an online program and your classroom program. Rather, they will be driven to another online program elsewhere, possibly of lesser quality than you could offer.”

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

Ruffaloni

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. With the fall 2021 enrollment data, we began to see the extent of the “rebound” back to fully classroom study. percent between 2020 and 2021.