Thursday, January 23, 2025

College Enrollment Up: Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2024 (Higher Education and Human Capital)

People are flocking back to college and that may be a good thing. As we shift from a post-industrial era to a digital era people will need to update their skills to compete. The world is becoming more complex and high technology needs high quality skills. College degrees or trade skills are needed to effectively compete and stay out of the minimum/low wage bracket. To maintain national competitiveness, we want to foster an educated and skilled workforce ready to compete globally. 

What I would like to see is whether online education and skilled trades are rising or not (I suspect they are.). You can sort of tell from the report that alternative education/certificate is growing and that likely also means easy access has value (There are some high value online programs out there with excellent performance outcomes.) To know if online that offers lifelong learning advantages is growing one would need to look at enrollment numbers categorizing those constucts separately (Other reports indicate it is.). The same with skilled trades. 


Fall 2024 College Enrollment Up: National Student Clearing House Research

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