China’s unemployment rate in May reached a record high of 20.8 percent for youth aged 16–24. Combined with the record-breaking 11.58 million graduates this year, the pressure on the job market is unprecedented. Many college students chose to delay graduation, hoping higher education would help to guarantee a better opportunity in the job market, according…
The Blowback Is Finally Here
October 28, 2022
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Commentary Bastille Day celebrates the 1789 storming of the famous French political prison where the inmates could never appeal their sentences imposed by royal decree. The event is mostly symbolic since there were only seven people in the facility and none of any real significance. But the point is there: such institutions are unjust and…
Declining College Enrollment Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Reformers
Commentary The United States continues to see a dramatic decline in the number of students attending college, with 1 million fewer students now enrolled since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans’ perception of higher education has also changed considerably. The share of U.S. adults who believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country…
MBA Applications at Top Ivy League Universities See Double Digit Drops
October 5, 2022
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Applications to top business school programs at top Ivy League universities saw double-digit drops this semester. Major MBA programs like Harvard Business School have reported steep drops in applications due to a tight labor market and expensive costs of the degrees, which have pushed many would-be applicants away, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal….
The Decline in College Enrollments is Serious—But Not Being Taken Seriously
Commentary Higher education is facing a crisis that nobody wants to talk about. According to data collected by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, enrollment nationwide dropped from just over 20.5 million students to 17.3 million in the 10-year period from fall 2011 to fall 2021. That’s a drop of 15.8 percent. Why is this…
School Enrolment Across US Dropped by Almost 3 Million From 2019 to 2020: Report
School enrolment across the United States dropped by 2.9 million from 2019 to 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. This marks the lowest level—52.4 percent of the learning-aged population—of school enrollment for those under 35 years of age in over 20 years, as per the…
School Enrollment Across US Dropped by Almost 3 Million From 2019 to 2020: Report
School enrollment across the United States dropped by 2.9 million from 2019 to 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. This marks the lowest level—52.4 percent of the learning-aged population—of school enrollment for those under 35 years of age in over 20 years, as per the…
The Boy Problem and the Girl Problem
Commentary “Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female students by record levels.” That was the first sentence of a story in the Wall Street Journal on Sept. 6 with the dramatic title “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost.’” The numbers certainly look…
American College Enrollment Sees Sharp Drop in Spring
New data from an education research nonprofit shows college enrollment saw a sharp drop in spring of this year, which compared to the decline a year earlier is about seven times worse. According to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse, released on June 10, overall spring enrollment in programs at U.S. colleges saw a…
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