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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

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Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. Other findings include: 12-month data reveal more than 820,000 additional graduate students across all formats. What the data show.

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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

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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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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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

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This does not present a strong case for returning the focus to classroom programs, while presenting a clear need to prioritize the offering of online courses within classroom programs and then fully online programs. Again, this does not present a strong case for returning the focus to classroom programs.

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Phil Hill Talks About the Impact of New IPEDS Data on Institutions and EdTech

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million undergraduate students and more than 440,000 graduate students missing from the fall census data. Scott Jeffe: It was interesting to me that you point out that almost all of these additional students chose to enroll in either all online courses (“all distance”) or some online courses (“one or more distance”).

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Course Design Support Is Crucial to Meet the Growing Demand for Online Learning

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Several key figures illustrate this point: Continuing student interest and corresponding enrollment growth in fully online programs. While enrollment growth in online programs is less pronounced among traditional-age undergraduates (36% vs. 50.6% for graduate students), this figure is still striking.

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30 Ways to Learn About Graduate and Online Enrollment Trends at the RNL National Conference

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Here are a few key sessions that graduate and online enrollment managers will not want to miss. Scaling and sustaining online programs Susan Aldridge (who served as president of Drexel Online and UMGC) will kick us off with A Futurists Mindset Leads to Scaling and Sustaining Online Programs.