Where Have All the Students Gone? Report Shows Students Choosing Work Over Higher Ed.

All but the most selective colleges see the largest plunge in students in 50 years by Jill Barshay As colleges around the country resumed in-person learning in the fall of 2021, many educators expected students to return to campus after taking a pandemic gap year. But a funny thing happened on the way to the Ivory Tower: even fewer students showed up than during the worst months of the pandemic in the fall of 2020. The number of undergraduate students is expected to drop 3.2 percent in the 2021-22 academic year after plunging 3.4 percent during the 2020-21 pandemic year, […]