https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/578539-colleges-see-largest-two-year-decline-in-50-years-amid-pandemic

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, colleges have seen their largest two-year decline in enrollment in 50 years, according to a study from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC).

The report found undergraduate enrollment dropped 6.5 percent from its pre-pandemic level two years ago.

In the last year alone, with COVID-19 restrictions continuing at universities around the U.S., enrollment numbers for undergraduates have fallen 3.2 percent.

"Enrollments are not getting better; they're still getting worse," Doug Shapiro, executive director of the NSCRC, told CNBC.

Enrollment among freshmen in college has gone down the most among White and Black students, at a decline of 8.6 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively.

C@LAg said:

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1. Costs increasing astronomically
2. Emphasis on worthless liberal arts and social programs
3. Focus more on indoctrination vs education
4. FJB

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Or just not wanting to enroll while restrictions are in place because they want the full college experience.....

Tex117 said:

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C@LAg said:

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1. Costs increasing astronomically
2. Emphasis on worthless liberal arts and social programs
3. Focus more on indoctrination vs education
4. FJB

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Or just not wanting to enroll while restrictions are in place because they want the full college experience.....

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yeah, cause mom and dad are just going to let them lounge around the house doing nothing for 2 years.

Just need employers to get desperate enough and drop the educational requirements for most of the jobs that really don't need it, and we can really wreck shop.

Hallelujah

Record Enrollment Numbers Continue At Texas A&M - Texas A&M Today (tamu.edu)

Yeah, but football....

Let it burn.

TexAg1987 said:

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Record Enrollment Numbers Continue At Texas A&M - Texas A&M Today (tamu.edu)

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well, yeah. for every group of statistics there are those that outperform the average.

but not sure this is a good thing since many of A&M's degree programs are just getting more and more watered down as it becomes a diploma mill.

DEI DEI DEI DEI DEI

It's all you hear about nowadays.

C@LAg said:

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Let's see:

2. Emphasis on worthless liberal arts and social programs

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dumb take.

I know more engineering grads out of work than liberal arts grads.

All other points are spot on.

A is A said:

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C@LAg said:

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Let's see:

2. Emphasis on worthless liberal arts and social programs

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dumb take.

I know more engineering grads out of work than liberal arts grads.

All other points are spot on.

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ah, yes.

your singular data point is the rule, not the exception.

That doesn't mean that liberal arts and social programs aren't worthless. Both can be true for different reasons, and they're not mutually exclusive..

If anything, the forced inclusion of those in all degree plans erodes the quality of the engineering degrees.

C@LAg said:

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Tex117 said:

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C@LAg said:

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1. Costs increasing astronomically
2. Emphasis on worthless liberal arts and social programs
3. Focus more on indoctrination vs education
4. FJB

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Or just not wanting to enroll while restrictions are in place because they want the full college experience.....

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yeah, cause mom and dad are just going to let them lounge around the house doing nothing for 2 years.

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Not the 90's bro-chacho. Of course the parents would coddle these little sheets and you know it.

A is A said:

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C@LAg said:

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Let's see:

2. Emphasis on worthless liberal arts and social programs

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dumb take.

I know more engineering grads out of work than liberal arts grads.

All other points are spot on.

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Many lib arts degrees are worthless nonsense. I'm sure many lib arts majors are working in jobs not related at all to their degree, thus your personal observation. Plus your personal observation is not evidence of anything really.

ABATTBQ11 said:

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That doesn't mean that liberal arts and social programs aren't worthless. Both can be true for different reasons, and they're not mutually exclusive..

If anything, the forced inclusion of those in all degree plans erodes the quality of the engineering degrees.

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my comment was more that the LA degrees are a greater part of the diploma mill.

yes they provide a very basic (and sometimes broad but not deep) education, but they do not provide much in the way of applicable information and skills.

and due to the HIGH VOLUME of LA degree holders, there are most definitely a much larger proportion and overall numbers of them unemployed or underemployed than there are of engineers.

This is good news. Many of these would have been worthless liberal arts degrees anyway.

Let them get out in the real world instead of what have in many cases turned into Marxist indoctrination centers.

We have another ****ing idiot running our school it appears. Bunch of useless restructuring and status quo from the consultant report recommendations yesterday.

Funny and pathetic at the same time. All state schools are going to lose demand coming soon. And the metrics we get from the big think tanks to judge schools with are the cause.

Problem is those think tanks idiots don't really judge schools on career income, job placement, and consumer demand anymore. Those are just a tiny part of the criteria.

Que Te Gusta Mas said:

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And their response will be to raise tuition.

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In a true supply/demand market, it would be impossible to do this.

But, we have the feds involved in the student loan process, and they pretty much give people in college whatever they want........ in the short term. Long term, so many dont finish and then are stuck where they can afford to pay the debt.

But who still got paid? The universities and the leftist professors. That's all that matters, right?