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College enrollment numbers, long in decline, may be hitting a cliff next year. After peaking in 2010, undergraduate enrollment dropped from roughly 18.1 million students that year to about 15.4 ...

Colleges and universities collectively experienced a 15% decline in enrollment between 2010 and 2021, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The Enrollment Cliff’s Impact on Higher Education. The 2025 enrollment cliff is more than a demographic blip; it’s a signal of profound changes in the higher education landscape. As the traditional college-going population declines, the industry must look beyond the numbers to understand the shifting attitudes and expectations of potential ...

In 2025, Hartwick College, for example, ... The so-called "enrollment cliff" — a sharp decline in the number of traditional college-aged students — is no longer a distant threat.

A new report predicts the number of high school graduates will peak at about 3.8 million in 2025 and then slowly decline, resulting in about 13% fewer graduates by 2041.

This “enrollment cliff” is expected to result in a 15% fall in college students after 2025, according to some experts, and some states will be impacted more heavily than others. For example ...

The consensus view is that America will hit a peak of around 3.5 million high-school graduates sometime near 2025. After that, the college-age population is expected to shrink across the next five ...

Why does the enrollment cliff matter more than ever? The shrinking pool of traditional college-aged students is no longer theoretical—hard numbers back it. U.S. birth rates have steadily declined, and the graduating high school population is expected to drop by considerably by 2030. But demographic shifts aren’t the only change.

As we discussed in our previous blog article, Seeing Past the Enrollment Cliff of 2025, this shift is compounded by the growing demand for more flexible, career-oriented education options, alongside the growing belief among students that the cost of a traditional college education is increasingly unjustifiable.

College enrollment projections anticipate numbers to plummet by more than 15% after 2025—just three short years away. The impending cliff was initially predicted due to steadily declining birth rates since the 2008 recession. This cohort of lost babies in the years ensuing 2008 would have begun to enter college 17 years later–starting their ...

The metaphorical demographic cliff, as it’s been described ad nauseam, undergirds sectorwide fears of massive program cuts, college closures and inadequate workforce capacity. Next year, that cliff will become more than a metaphor, according to a new report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. The number of 18-year-old ...

A new data dashboard is helping college leaders prepare for expected enrollment declines and demographic shifts. A new digital tool aims to help campus leaders prepare for an impending demographic cliff, a steep drop in the traditional college-age population in certain parts of the country starting in 2025. The interactive data visualization tool shows enrollment and population trends by state ...

Colleges and universities are about to experience the landfall of a long-brewing demographic storm, commonly referred to in higher ed as “the enrollment cliff.”As highlighted in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education video, this decline in the traditional college-aged population presents unique challenges that will require institutions to rethink how they attract and serve students in the ...

Susan Makowski, director of admissions at Rider University, at a college fair she helps organize in New Jersey. “A cliff is coming,” Makowski says. The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like ...

Published On 24 Apr 2025 24 Apr 2025 Harvard University sues Trump administration over funding freeze The Ivy League school has filed suit to halt a US federal freeze on more than $2.2bn in grants.

Semiconductor market revenue worldwide 1987-2025; ... The ‘enrollment cliff’, a phenomenon referring to declining college enrollment numbers in the United States, is generally attributed to a ...

You may have seen the term “enrollment cliff” mentioned by Higher Education professionals with the year 2025 attached to this projection. This expected decline in student enrollment to Higher Education institutions has been projected to occur due to multiple factors. These factors include a decline in birthrate after the 2008 recession, increasing costs of tuition,…

The largest number of births in US history was recorded in 2007, which means that 2025 is the year that an “enrolment cliff” is expected to begin. Michael Nietzel, former president of Missouri State University, told Times Higher Education that the effects of the demographic cliff edge may be seen in the next admission cycle.

Find Your College. Narrow down your college from over 6,000 colleges, and explore resources to plan, prepare, and graduate from college. ... 2025 are provisional data from the Spring 2024 data collection, including Enrollment and Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2023 and Financial Statistics and Academic Libraries, Fiscal Year 2023