Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Spring 2022 (PDF)

College enrollment declines appear to be worsening. Total postsecondary enrollment fell a further 4.1 percent or 685,000 students in spring 2022 following a 3.5 percent drop last spring. Continued enrollment…

Transfer and Progress – Fall 2023 Appendix (XLSX)

Transfer enrollment represents 13.2 percent of all continuing and returning undergraduates in fall 2023. The number of students who transferred into a new institution in fall 2023 grew 5.3 percent…

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 pre-pandemic levels,…

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 pre-pandemic levels,…

Undergraduate Degree Earners – 2021 (PDF)

The total number of undergraduate credential earners in 2019-20 remained the same as the prior year, halting its steady annual rise for the first time since 2012-13 when tracking started….

High School Benchmarks – 2021 (PDF)

This ninth annual report provides the most current data on high school graduates’ postsecondary enrollment, persistence, and completion outcomes. These data are the most relevant benchmarks for monitoring and evaluating…

Some College, No Credential – 2025 (PDF)

The Some College, No Credential report series seeks to understand the educational trajectories of millions of U.S. adults who left postsecondary education without receiving a credential and are no longer…

High School Benchmarks – 2024 Methodology (PDF)

The current report examines first-fall (immediate) college enrollment for the high school graduating class of 2023, persistence for the class of 2021, and completion for the class of 2017.

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