Posted on 10/20/2022 5:14:31 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Colleges nationwide and in California continue to lose undergraduate students, but the declines have slowed compared to the past two years when the pandemic upended education, a national report shows.
California saw a 1.1% drop in undergraduates since last year, a slower decline than last fall when enrollment dipped 5.9%, according to preliminary fall 2022 data released Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Nationally, the rate of undergraduate decline is also 1.1%, which is slightly less than the 1.7% drop in fall 2019.
For the first time since the pandemic, the declines nationwide are steeper at four-year schools than at community colleges, which have benefited from double-digit increases in dual enrollment high school students.
While highly selective colleges saw a small increase in students, less selective colleges saw greater losses.
“Undergraduate enrollments are still falling in this term. The rate of decline is lower than it’s been, but after two straight years of historically large losses in student enrollments, it’s particularly troubling that the numbers are not climbing back after this point, especially among freshmen,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director of National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
“Although the decline has slowed and there are some bright spots, a path back to pre-pandemic enrollment levels is growing further out of reach,” he said.
The number of first-year students enrolled nationally dipped 1.5%.
While pandemic-era enrollment declines in higher education have begun to slow, they have not rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.
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Undergraduate enrollment is up 3.2% at primarily online institutions. It is driven by students aged 18-20 whose numbers at these institutions have swelled by 23.4% over the past two years. The report notes that data from these institutions are small and may change.
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Recruit more gender freaks.
This is good news. Save your money and save your brain from indoctrination and many useless degrees. College is not for everyone.
Fewer foreign students enrolling?
High cost, lousy return.
Vaxx mandates.
“Save your money and save your brain from indoctrination and many useless degrees. College is not for everyone.”
...precisely. Some of the most successful people in the world are HS or less graduates. College is needed for medical, law, usually business, accounting. Can’t think of much else. Oh yeah...Gender Studies.
Colleges are bastions of CRT, male bashing, communist pedos. They should be declining.
You won’t get any argument on that from me.
You forgot engineering and other STEM disciplines.
“Undergraduate enrollment is up 3.2% at primarily online institutions.”
The kids now know how worthless that degree is. May as well just phone it in on Mom & Dad’s dime and study from the basement with free room and board. ;)
When my step-son was ready for college, I told him I would give him free room and board and pay for his books and keep his car full of gas IF he went to a Tech School and learned a trade. He did. It’s worked out well for him. He now designs/upgrades traffic patterns and signals in a major metro area.
(So, yeah. You can blame HIM when you’re late for work, LOL!)
Half of the STEM classes are filled with Asians.
We are educating a generation of Chinese to destroy us.
Given the current administration, you won’t need a bunch of Chinese engineers to do that.
While I understand your sentiment, there are many fields where a degree is needed--engineering, physics, chemistry, pharmacy, biology, the majority of computer sciences, mathematics, actuarial sciences, statistics, and many more.
Are there too many "studies" degrees? Absolutely. No value there. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
True that. But the article is about undergraduate enrollment. Most of the Asians in STEPM majors are in graduate courses.
I don't know about other STEM majors besides computer science. And my experience is a bit dated. But IMHO most of the real software engineering skills are taught in undergraduate courses, while the graduate level courses tend to have more window dressing and less substance. And that's not even getting into experience being the best teacher anyway.
>>Enrollment for master’s degrees in education declined by 6.1%.
Good news indeed.
>>Enrollment in those studying computer and information science grew across the board since last fall: 10.1% for associate degrees, 9.5% for bachelor’s degrees and 21.4% for master’s degrees. At the associate level, construction trades are up 7.4%, and visual and performing arts are up 6.3%. At the undergraduate certificate level, business and management is up 6.9%, mechanic and repair technologies is up 3.3%, and precision production is up 7.2%.
Enrollment is up for useful degrees.
” there are many fields where a degree is needed”
...I get it. My point is still valid. Too many mush brained kids are taking “14th Century French Art”, “Philosophy” and “African American History”. Nowhere majors
My experience is a bit dated as well, but my mech eng masters was worth the time I put into it. Of course, that also could vary from college to college.
Pay $100,000 to go to an insane asylum to get a meaningless degree. And get harassed the entire time you are there. I wonder why no one wants to go.
Colleges go “woke” and then they go broke?
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