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Colleges Across the Country Report Fewer Undergraduate Enrollments: Clearinghouse

Colleges Across the Country Report Fewer Undergraduate Enrollments: Clearinghouse
A student does work in the shade at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
11/29/2021|Updated: 11/29/2021

Undergraduate enrollment has gone down in U.S. universities, according to recent numbers released to an educational research center, with public two-year schools and private for-profit four-year schools seeing the biggest declines.

Going into the second fall semester since the pandemic, there has been a decrease of 2.6 percent in postsecondary enrollment, a 3.5 percent reduction in undergraduate enrollment, and a 2.1 percent increase in graduate enrollment, based on the data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. There has been a decline of 7.8 percent in undergraduate enrollment since 2019.
Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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