Each year, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center compiles a report on Americans with some college but no credentials (SCNC). Below are five of the most interesting statistics from its 2025 report.[1] 41.3 million: The size of America’s SCNC population, with 37.6 million under the age of 65. 2 Years in a Row: For two...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

It’s Halloween season. And ghosts are beginning to appear everywhere… including ghost students. No, not college co-eds dressed up in their scariest outfits for a night out with friends, but scammers who enroll in college just to defraud your institution (and the student loan system) out of millions. Yes, millions. It’s a problem that’s been...Read More

1,421%. That’s the increase in Gen Z enrollments in trade school programs over the past eight years. If you operate a trade school (or career-based college), these numbers, while indeed staggering, may come as no surprise… Gen Z is the toolbelt generation, after all, and has been enrolling in trade programs at historic levels. However,...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

Jim Delligatti was doing what everyone else was doing… and he was getting the pants beat off him as a result. You see, back in 1967, Delligatti, a Pittsburgh-based McDonald’s franchise owner had to stick to the corporate script. Make small hamburgers, sell small hamburgers. But he was losing customers to a sandwich shop down...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

Ideas and ideals about higher education have changed drastically over the years. It used to be understood that the best pathway to a great paying job after high school was four-year college. That’s no longer the case! According to a new poll from HR Dive, a remarkable percentage of US Adults believe trade school is...Read More