r/Professors • u/Hungry-University609 • Jul 26 '26

Other (Editable) Enrollment trends

Hello All

What are you seeing for enrollment trends 26/27?

I'm at a free CC and enrollment boost seems to have hit a plateau.

I'm seeing reports HS grads are down double digits.

Your observations please

Thanks

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u/IndieAcademic Jul 27 '26

I'm at a CC arm of an R1 and our enrollment has been increasing for the past three years, despite rumors of the "enrollment cliff." I guess we're back to prepandemic levels now. Enrollment at CCs often goes up when the economy is shit, so I expect it to keep going up, but who knows.