This Snapshot Report is based on the cohort of fall 2011 entering students extracted for NSC Signature Report #14: A National View of Student Completion Rates. There were two major changes from prior versions of the report on completion rates that pertained to cohort definitions: (1) All-years look-back for prior enrollments: Data limitations in…

Community college enrollment has been in decline nationally since peaking in 2010. This report puts the recent community college trends into perspective by reviewing community college enrollment from 2001 through 2017, and by examining concurrent trends that are related to community college enrollments. This report provides the reader with a…

To improve student access and success in North Dakota University System (NDUS) institutions, the State Board of Higher Education has implemented enrollment policies that better reflect the differentiated missions of research universities, regional universities, and community colleges. This report addresses the transition in policy by grouping data…

The Yearly Success and Progress Rates report goes beyond traditional student outcome measures by showing year-by-year rates of retention, persistence, transfer, completion and stop-out. It is designed to help institutions and states better identify and inform effective intervention points to increase student success. This report examines yearly…

One of the most substantial concerns surrounding remedial education at the postsecondary level is the impact that it may have on student success and completion. While Parts 1 and 2 of this series of briefs focused on providing context necessary to understand the concept and purpose of remediation and what postsecondary populations are assessed to…

This dissertation consists of three independent chapters in applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I study the causal effect impact of early life circumstances on adult psychological well-being using the property reform in China as a positive and policy driven change in economic resources in early life. Exploiting the staggered adoption of…

The importance of leadership is discussed widely in the social work literature. However, little is known about the leadership skills of social work students and factors affecting their development in the environment specific to higher educational institutions (HEIs). This research aimed to find out what skills pre-service social work students had…

This publication provides concise information on the duration of compulsory education/training in 43 European education systems covering 38 countries participating in the European Union's (EU's) Erasmus+ programme (28 Member States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of…

This report presents a comparative overview of the main features of national student fee and financial support systems in European higher education in the 2020/21 academic year. It provides insights on whether any fees are charged to students in higher education, which students may have to pay such fees and how much. It also presents public…

International students enrich the campus culture and help domestic students to grow cross-cultural competencies, and international students have also contributed a lot to the revenue of both the hosting institutions and the U.S. economy. Regretfully, there has been a dearth of studies on international students, particularly in the areas of…

Despite the many plaudits it has won, the new student funding regime in Wales deserves close scrutiny, including in England as the Augar Review of Post-18 Education and Funding enters its final phase. This paper looks at the new system, particularly in relation to full-time students. The figures provided are generally for Welsh-domiciled students…

As the tenth in the Completing College series, this report updates the six-year college completion rates nationally and by state, by tracking the enrollment and completion outcomes for the fall 2015 cohort of beginning college students through June 2021. The national completion rate measures the performance of the entire higher education system.…

The North Dakota University System "2021-2022 Annual Enrollment Report" is an effort to report system wide, duplicated and unduplicated student headcount by combining degree credit, non-degree credit, and non-credit enrollments across the eleven NDUS institutions for an entire academic year. Non-credit enrollments provided through…

The Fall 2020 Enrollment Fact Book details current fall enrollment data including on- and off-campus enrollment by ethnicity, gender, residency, degree program level, and program category. [For the Fall 2019 Enrollment Fact Book, see ED611659.]

This report provides information on the 15 Iowa community colleges for the fall of 2020 including: (1) Students; (2) Students Demographics; (3) Academics; (4) Program Type; (5) Transfer Major Programs; (6) Career Clusters; (7) Online Enrollment; (8) Joint Enrollment; (9) Immediate Enrollment; and (10) Enrollment Projections. The report also…