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Colleges are about to start running out of students
Morning Brew ^ | September 1, 2026 | Sam Klebanov

Posted on 09/26/2026 8:25:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

There’s about to be fewer feet sticking to frat floors and hands slapping the bag. US colleges are facing an enrollment cliff after the population of Americans aged 18 peaked last year.

Undergraduate enrollment is projected to decline by 13% in the next 15 years, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Meanwhile, many schools are already in a pickle: Families are increasingly bargain hunting for the most generous financial aid as they doubt the value of a higher education. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has restricted international student visas, denting enrollment in the process.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: 2025; 20260831; academia; colleges; demographiccliff; demographics; education; enrollment; schools; studentenrollment; studentvisas; universities

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1 posted on 09/26/2026 8:25:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Excellent. Shut ‘em down and use them for outhouses. That’s all they are anyway.


2 posted on 09/26/2026 8:29:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since "protesters" are now being paid, protests should be required to have at least 5000 idiots.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How many how those billions of dollars in endowments?


3 posted on 09/26/2026 8:30:57 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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“ Trump administration has restricted international student visas, denting enrollment in the process.”

I think they buried the lede on this.

This is a huge story from a month ago no one talked about. It was big


4 posted on 09/26/2026 8:33:31 PM PDT by stanne
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To: MinorityRepublican

600,000 on their way...


5 posted on 09/26/2026 9:00:33 PM PDT by Does so (Book:"The Party of Death"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>> Excellent. Shut ‘em down and use them for outhouses. &etc

Dang! I was about to post something of that nature but you beat me to it, and I like yours better anyway.


6 posted on 09/26/2026 9:15:21 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Better to go to trade school and make a real living and not be in debt.


7 posted on 09/26/2026 9:18:17 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: dfwgator

Off topic, but my sources inform me that the SEC poseur SWC refugee Orange & White team actually won today. Could it be? LOL.


8 posted on 09/26/2026 9:20:15 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Everyone else has to downsize, why not the college industrial complex?


9 posted on 09/26/2026 9:48:57 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Who cares? It’s all about The Orange and Blue! We are so back, baby!


10 posted on 09/26/2026 9:55:38 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: stanne

And international students generally pay full freight for the education (or miseducation).


11 posted on 09/26/2026 10:43:40 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Texas resident

Absolutely.


12 posted on 09/26/2026 11:25:08 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Exactly.


13 posted on 09/26/2026 11:25:26 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

They get educated. They’re not in liberal arts courses. Math, engineering, medicine. There’s no mind control there. Their gives were paying. Cash. Like 4x what our kids are footing their own bill for

People don’t know Trump knows that, is outraged by it. And stopped it.

From Google-

“The Department of Defense directed 30 U.S. academic institutions to audit their research and financial ties with foreign entities of concern by August 31, 2026, or risk losing federal research funding.”


14 posted on 09/27/2026 12:02:46 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MinorityRepublican

Schools are also dumping the trash majors that have so stained the public mind in the last half century.

Going forward, they will need to prove the value of any major that costs so much.


15 posted on 09/27/2026 2:42:53 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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We need more studies about the life cycle of 6 sexes though. /s


16 posted on 09/27/2026 3:00:09 AM PDT by Kudsman (Killing and raping infidels, it's a cultural thing. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

” hands slapping the bag .”?


17 posted on 09/27/2026 3:02:04 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s lower education to higher and a lobotomy is far cheaper with similar results.


18 posted on 09/27/2026 4:24:57 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Undergraduate enrollment is projected to decline by 13% in the next 15 years”

It SHOULD be at least 50%, if the government would stop funding useless degrees for women.


19 posted on 09/27/2026 4:24:58 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Sell them and take the endowments and use to pay student tuition debt.


20 posted on 09/27/2026 4:33:15 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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