Graduate enrollment increased, but not enough to cover the decrease in undergraduates.
More than 350,000 fewer students enrolled in undergraduate programs during the 2019 Spring Semester than the previous year, a recently released report found.
Florida had the biggest decrease in enrollment, including all sectors of post-secondary education and both graduate and undergraduate programs. A 5.2 percent decrease from Spring 2018, it equaled almost 50,000 students, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report. Compared to the Spring 2018 semester, 351,264 fewer people enrolled in undergraduate programs for the Spring 2019 semester, representative of a 2.3 percent drop. Interestingly enough, graduate and professional programs had a two percent increase, equivalent to 54,043 students.
Overall, four-year public institutions saw a 1.4 percent decrease in undergraduate enrollment and two-year public institutions had a 3.4 percent decrease.
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