Source: American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record | Fortune
What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. The slide in the college-going rate since 2018 is the steepest on record, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reality: We’ve now passed by “peak college”. It’s the population demographics.
Fertility rate since the peak in 1958/59/60. This is not a mystery – except to those of us who spent decades believing Erhlich’s Population Bomb manifesto which we now know was wrong the day it was written.
