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ERIC Number: ED609890
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 22
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Spring 2020
National Student Clearinghouse
The "Current Term Enrollment Estimates Report Series" is published every December and May by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It provides national enrollment estimates by institutional sector, enrollment intensity, age group, gender, major field as well as state-level enrollment estimates. The average age for different student groups is a new addition. Enrollment estimates are adjusted for Clearinghouse data coverage rates by institutional sector, state, and year. As of fall 2019, postsecondary institutions actively submitting enrollment data to the Clearinghouse account for 97 percent of the total enrollments at Title IV, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. Most institutions submit enrollment data several times per term, resulting in highly current data. Moreover, since the Clearinghouse collects data at the student level, it is possible to report an unduplicated student headcount, which avoids double-counting students who are simultaneously enrolled at multiple institutions. This edition of the "Current Term Enrollment Estimates" should be viewed as a pre-shutdown, start-of-term baseline that does not reflect any effects of the pandemic on enrollments. The declining trend in enrollments continues from the previous years, but the pace of decline slowed this year. Overall postsecondary enrollments decreased 0.5 percent or 83,803 students from spring 2019. The public sector enrollments (two- and four-year colleges combined), which enrolled nearly three-quarters of all postsecondary students, fell by 1.3 percent (163,964 students), compared to 1.9 percent (244,376 students) reported last year. It is also noteworthy that the recent growth in graduate student enrollments appears to have leveled off this year, with a slight drop of 3,286 students (-0.1%), after increases of 1.7 percent and 2 percent in the previous two years. As opposed to the overall declines, dual enrollments grew at an unprecedented rate of 6.9 percent or 46,737 students to 722,843 students. Over 70 percent of dual enrollees were in a public two-year institution. All institution sectors experienced enrollment declines, with the largest drop in the public two-year sector (-2.3%), followed by the private for-profit four-year and private nonprofit four-year sectors (-1.9% and -0.7%, respectively). [For "Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2019," see ED609889.]
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Available from: National Student Clearinghouse. 2300 Dulles Station Boulevard Suite 300, Herndon, VA 20171. e-mail: service@studentclearinghouse.org; Web site: http://www.studentclearinghouse.org
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Higher Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
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