College enrollment numbers for Fall 2025 have been good. Early estimates show 19.57 million undergrads are ready to hit the books: up about 290,000 students from the Fall of 2024. Now, new data from the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) show Free Applications for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the high school class of 2025...Read More

Demographic cliff be darned. Data from the Education Data Initiative is projecting the Fall 2025 semester, which is about to begin, to show enrollment growth! Get this, for Fall 2025, college undergrad enrollment is projected to increase to 19.57 million students: up 290,000 undergrads over Fall 2024. Although Bachelors and Associate program enrollments are still below the...Read More

Like any business, higher education is fueled by new leads turning into new customers, or in your case, new students. Of course, if you don’t continuously fill your “pipeline” with new leads, your new student enrollments are highly likely to decline… which, as you know, could lead to catastrophe. In fact, catastrophes are already happening....Read More

Over the past couple of semesters, we’ve been experiencing somewhat of a resurgence in college enrollments; albeit small, but a resurgence, nonetheless. You see, this past spring semester alone, higher education has seen total secondary enrollments grow by 3.2% over spring 2024… Community colleges saw 5.4% enrollment growth, with bachelor’s and associate degree programs growing...Read More

The ultimate goal of educators is to give students the knowledge base they need to land a good paying job. And in today’s jobs market, that knowledge base is changing. You see, it wasn’t that long ago that employers, nearly every good employer, demanded their job candidates have a four-year college degree to even be...Read More

We recently shared some statistics on Spring 2025 college enrollment with you in an article titled “Spring 2025 College Enrollment Stats… The Bad, The Good, The Great, and The Opportunity.” In it, we noted how total secondary enrollments actually grew by 3.2% this spring over spring 2024, with community colleges seeing the largest growth (5.4%)....Read More

It’s no secret. No matter how much new data comes in, the facts are the facts… And it’s bad news for traditional, brick-and-mortar higher ed. College enrollments, generally speaking, have been trending downward, with some exceptions, for a long time. From peak enrollment in 2010 to the fall of 2024, we’ve lost roughly 8.4% of...Read More

Today’s prospective college students are very practical. They understand the costs associated with earning a college degree, they’re looking for an education that can lead almost immediately to a good paying job… and they’re willing to pay for it. And this may be one of the main factors of why one degree program in particular...Read More

Yes, college enrollment, especially for recently graduated high school students, has been trending down. But even with the demographic cliff upon us, there is an increasing interest in at least five degree types that now have prospective students, especially recent high school grads, really considering enrolling in college. What’s better, if you offer these programs...Read More

If you’ve been marketing your online college programs, chances are you’re heavily invested in a key demographic. A demographic that includes millions of Americans who are already in the workforce… Adult learners. And, of course, targeting this demographic has been widely successful for many online institutions (especially those we partner with) as adult learners are...Read More