by NSC Research Center | Mar 27, 2023
Stay Informed Methodological Notes – First-Look Spring 2023 (PDF) In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities are pressed to re-evaluate their long- and short-term strategies, particularly as they pertain to enrollment management and student...
by NSC Research Center | Oct 25, 2023
Stay Informed Methodological Notes – Fall 2023 (PDF) In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities are pressed to re-evaluate their long- and short-term strategies, particularly as they pertain to enrollment management and student support...
by NSC Research Center | Mar 28, 2023
Stay Informed Data Appendix - Spring 2023 (XLSX) In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities are pressed to re-evaluate their long- and short-term strategies, particularly as they pertain to enrollment management and student support...
by NSC Research Center | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Completions, National, PDP, Postsecondary
The PDP Insights report focuses on students’ first year credit completion ratio (CCR) and credit accumulation rate (CAR). These early momentum measures can offer insights into students’ progression toward degree completion and provide indicators of when and where gaps in ultimate degree attainment between groups may begin.
by NSC Research Center | Jan 12, 2022
Current Term Enrollment Estimates - Fall 2021 Appendix (XLSX) Total postsecondary enrollment declined by 2.7 percent or 476,100 students in fall 2021, for a total two-year decline of 5.1 percent or 937,500 students since the beginning of the COVID-19...
by NSC Research Center | Oct 25, 2023
Stay Informed Data Appendix - Fall 2023 (XLSX) In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities are pressed to re-evaluate their long- and short-term strategies, particularly as they pertain to enrollment management and student support...
by NSC Research Center | Oct 25, 2021
Stay Informed Data & Methodological Notes – Fall 2021 #1 (XLSX) The Stay Informed series is designed to track the impact of COVID-19 on postsecondary enrollment, using the latest data available and the historical data from the two most recent years (2018 and 2019)...
by NSC Research Center | Mar 7, 2023
Transfer and Progress – Fall 2022 Appendix (XLSX) A new series on pandemic recovery, enduring enrollment impacts for economically disadvantaged students, and early outcomes for pandemic-impacted community college...
by NSC Research Center | Mar 24, 2021
High School Benchmarks - 2020 (PDF) This eighth annual report updates the key indicators of high school to college transition, persistence, and completion outcomes for high school graduates of 2019 and earlier. In addition, this year’s report features a first look at...
by NSC Research Center | Jun 27, 2022
Persistence and Retention - 2022 (PDF) Seventy-five percent of students who started college in the first fall of the COVID-19 pandemic returned for their second year. This persistence rate represents a one-year increase of 1.1 percentage points but has yet to recover...
by NSC Research Center | May 23, 2023
Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Spring 2023 (PDF) Community college enrollment grew slightly this spring (up 0.5%, 22,000 students from spring 2022), after large declines in the previous two years. A growing number of younger students, primarily dual enrolled high...
by NSC Research Center | May 23, 2023
Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Spring 2023 Appendix (XLSX) Community college enrollment grew slightly this spring (up 0.5%, 22,000 students from spring 2022), after large declines in the previous two years. A growing number of younger students, primarily dual...
by NSC Research Center | Jun 9, 2021
Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Spring 2021 (PDF) Overall spring enrollment fell to 16.9 million from 17.5 million, marking a one-year decline of 3.5 percent or 603,000 students, seven times worse than the decline a year...
by NSC Research Center | Feb 1, 2023
Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Fall 2022 Appendix (XLSX) Fall undergraduate enrollment has begun to stabilize in 2022, contracting only by 0.6 percent or about 94,000 students, compared to fall 2021. However, postsecondary enrollment remains well below...
by NSC Research Center | Feb 1, 2023
Current Term Enrollment Estimates Methodological Notes – Fall 2022 (PDF) Fall undergraduate enrollment has begun to stabilize in 2022, contracting only by 0.6 percent or about 94,000 students, compared to fall 2021. However, postsecondary enrollment remains well below...
