'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

Dave_Berry
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:36:28 +0000

“…Students attending college for the first time represent one of the largest groups missing from college classes this fall, Shapiro says. For students who graduated from high school in the class of 2020, the number of graduates enrolling in college is down by 21.7% compared with last year, based on preliminary data. For graduates at high-poverty high schools there was a 32.6% decline in attending college, compared with a 16.4% decline for graduates of low-poverty schools.” …

NPR

'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

Researchers say the pandemic is largely to blame for this year's drastic enrollment declines, but college-going has also been on a decade-long downward trend.