Pandemic Sinks College Enrollment Again, but Fall Looks Brighter
WKBT July 1, 2021 5:00 PM Colin Beresford Posted: Updated: Getty Images College enrollment has fallen for the second semester in a row compared with year-earlier periods. And the drop through the spring of this year was worse than it was in fall 2020. For the spring semester, overall enrollment declined 3.5% from the previous spring, according to estimates released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center on June 10. Last fall, enrollment fell 2.6% year over year. The estimates weren’t surprising to Bill DeBaun, director of data and evaluation at the National College ...