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What’s Happening in the Business Master’s Market?
The business master’s market has long enjoyed its place at the top of the academic field food chain. In 2020, institutions of higher education reported nearly 200,000 master’s degree conferrals from business-aligned programs. The next largest market? Education, with...
Canaries in the Coal Mine: The Debate over Pell Grant Eligibility
In case you missed it, the latest episode in the long-standing drama known as Pell Grant eligibility reached an anti-climactic conclusion in June. Although the Senate approved the $200 billion Innovation and Competition Act, ostensibly designed to counter China’s...
The EdTech Solutions That Are Flourishing, Thanks to COVID-19
There has been a great deal of discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on technology adoption among colleges and universities. Many commentators, for example, have noticed the spike in the adoption of Productivity and Collaboration Solutions (like Zoom) and have...
The Deceptive Graduate Enrollment Growth Story
Graduate enrollment growth appears as a ray of sunshine in the pandemic storm. As undergraduate enrollment slumped by 4.4% in fall 2020, graduate student numbers grew 2.9% year-over-year despite a global health crisis—momentum twice as fast as the year prior. But...
Is the Great Transfer Student Migration Coming?
One-third of first-year college students we surveyed in the spring of 2021 told us their college choice had been affected by the pandemic. The question is, as vaccination rates inch up and we learn to live with COVID, will we see a great transfer student migration...
Riding the Health Degree Market Wave
There is no denying that the health-aligned program market has experienced massive growth in recent years. Health-aligned bachelor’s and master’s degree conferrals both grew by more than 50% between 2012 and 2019. But as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, what...
