The University of Portland sees 21% of students who had made down payments for fall enrollment – disenroll.

The university acknowledges that population demographics are playing a role:

Some 82% of the students who withdrew said they were doing so for financial reasons, Barger wrote. He pointed to contributing factors like COVID-driven student fatigue and mental health challenges, increased competition among schools for fewer high school graduates, and competition with other private schools that had discounted tuition to increase their enrollment.

Record number of 1st-year students withdraw from University of Portland, contributing to $13.4M shortfall (msn.com)

We are already seeing the impacts of a declining population trend. This is happening at more universities. Not all are going to survive, long term.

 

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