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…
In our previous post, broad trends related to K-12 enrollment and high school graduates were explored at both the national and state of Texas levels (IHE Enrollment Trends: K-12 and HS Graduates). The national data showed that the growth in high school graduates during the past few decades began flattening with the 2013 graduating class,…
Enrollment in institutions of higher education (IHEs) has been a topic of interest for stakeholders for as long as colleges and universities have existed. The current uncertainties surrounding the full effects of COVID-19 on enrollments have only heightened the concern about near- and long-term struggles facing public IHEs who are growing increasingly dependent on student…