The connection between a quality workforce and the success of a state is unquestioned. In our previous blog post, we introduced America’s Top States for Business study from 2022. Throughout the 14 years of the CNBC study, Texas has had the best average ranking of 2.2 across all years in the data. However, in the last…
Throughout our current blog series, we have primarily sought to better understand the factors that have and will continue to influence enrollment in higher education in Texas. We now want to connect the successful preparation of college and university students to real-world outcomes at the state level. To this end, we turn our attention to CNBC’s…
As a follow-up to our previous blog post looking at broad trends in educational attainment across the United States, we wanted to zoom into the state of Texas specifically to see how educational attainment levels have changed over time. Using the American Community Survey (ACS) data, the visualizations below show data from two perspectives: the counties within 50…
In our blog series on factors influencing enrollment in higher education, we now turn our lens to the current status of educational attainment in Texas and the United States. We will use data from the American Community Survey (ACS) that provides educational attainment estimates for adults (ages 25 and older) by seven categories ranging from…
Factors Influencing IHE Enrollments: Birth Rates In our previous blog post, we explored data from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education’s (WICHE) Knocking at the College Door report that is predicting a -10.4% decrease in high school graduates from 2026 to 2037. One of the primary factors contributing to the double-digit drop in HS grads in…
Predicting the Future of High School Graduates: WICHE Data Enrollment in America’s institutions of higher education has been an ongoing point-of-concern for a number of years. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent headcount decreases have only heightened the stress related to the future of enrollment in colleges and universities. The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) estimates that…
Loan Repayment Status by Institutional Type This blog post represents the eighth and final contribution in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. The previous blog post explored the relationship between loan repayment rate and the percentage of students from underserved/underrepresented student populations. The data…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time This blog post represents the seventh in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. In our previous blog post, we started looking at trends in student loan repayment of beginning balances. Using the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data, we…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time In our previous blog posts, we reviewed a number of trends in the federal student loan debt data that are included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. The College Scorecard student loan debt data are different from other sources, as the cohorts included in the data are comprised of…