Enrollment of undergraduates in U.S. universities declines
According to data from the National Student Exchanges House Research Center, in the second fall semester since the outbreak, enrollment in higher education dropped by 2.6%; enrollment in undergraduate courses fell by 3.5%; enrollment in graduate students increased By 2.1%. Since 2019, the enrollment of undergraduate students in U.S. universities has fallen by 7.8%.
Doug Shapiro, executive director of the research center, said in a press release: “Today’s data is basically the same as last month’s report. As more and more school data are collected, it continues The downward trend has brought even more disturbing concerns to students and institutions that are struggling to recover from the first year of the epidemic."
The enrollment rate of male undergraduates fell by 3.4%, while the enrollment rate of female undergraduates fell by 4.1%. The number of young people aged 18 to 20 who applied to college dropped by 2.6%. Among students aged 21 to 24, this number fell by 3.3%.
For older people aged 25 to 29, the number of undergraduate enrollment dropped by 9% this year, compared with 5.1% in 2020. Since 2019, the freshman enrollment rate has dropped by 13.1%. Compared with the fall of last year, it was down 2.7% for homeschool curriculum.