Ask any Zoomer and they’ll tell you, “I’ve heard trade school is the place to be, not college.” Sounds odd, but it didn’t used to be this way. You see, for decades the dominant message to/from young people was clear… Go to a four-year college, earn a bachelor’s degree, and success will follow. But as...Read More

Today’s prospective college students have one thing in mind when it comes to an education… And that’s getting a good paying job right after graduation. You see, in an era where the value of a college degree is increasingly scrutinized, the traditional focus on “sticker price” simply doesn’t resonate with prospective students and their families...Read More

Depending on how you “count” them, anywhere between 15 and 40 brick-and-mortar colleges either shut down or merged this year, unfortunately. Even worse, Bloomberg says “hundreds of US colleges are poised to close in the next decade.[1] You see, since 2020, the traditional higher ed industry has been experiencing nothing short of an “Edu-Pocolypse”. And...Read More

The average cost differential between online college and in-person, traditional brick-and-mortar college is startling. New information from the Education Data Initiative makes it clear… even as its popularity grows, online college remains more affordable![1] Numbers to Know $509: The average cost per credit hour for an online bachelor’s program. $791: The average cost per credit...Read More

Every November, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) publishes its preliminary report on Fall enrollments. And this year’s report is quite promising for brick-and-mortar colleges and universities… Overall enrollments continue to rebound post pandemic and are up 2% over Fall 2024. Even more promising, undergrad enrollment is up 2.4%.[1] Of course, while this is...Read More

This is it. The demographic cliff is upon us. The high school class of 2025 will be, according to most experts, the largest graduating class in US history… Followed by fewer and fewer class sizes for years and years to come. Essentially, we’re running out of 18 year olds, and there are not enough younger...Read More

A lot has changed at the Ed. Dept this year. Some for the better, some perhaps, for the worse. However, one change in particular is most certainly being viewed as a positive by short-term career-based schools: Changes in Pell Grants. You see, this past summer, Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) which...Read More

Wikipedia has an entire page devoted to “Films about academic scandals.” And with artificial intelligence now a daily part of college life, it begs the question… How are today’s college students using AI? Are they cheating? Well, according to data compiled by Inside Higher Ed:[1] 85% say they’ve used AI for coursework 55% say they’ve...Read More

Ask any high school student (or adult for that matter) if there’s a shortage of skilled tradespeople, and they’ll say yes, there is. And they’re right. As evidenced by the incredible “booming jobs market for skilled tradespersons”, noted by Forbes[1], and the rising pay for people who have those skills… there has indeed become a...Read More

Back in March, we, Conversion Media Group wrote you a piece titled, “What does the Education Department layoffs mean for higher Ed?” In it, we said, “For the past two or so months now, DOGE (or the department of government efficiency) has been trimming some fat from the federal government. “It’s been Elon Musk’s goal...Read More