OT- Memphis Enrollment

[HWY51dog]

University of Memphis expects enrollment numbers to be down 25% for freshman. That’s a large number, schools are about to be hurting bad. Article is pay.

Small U of M enrollment numbers rock the boat

First-time freshmen enrollment numbers are down nearly 25% at the University of Memphis. Enrollment is also down at Christian Brothers University, Rhodes College, and Southwest Tennessee Community College.

dailymemphian.com

 

[The Peeper]

University of Memphis expects enrollment numbers to be down 25% for freshman. That’s a large number, schools are about to be hurting bad. Article is pay.

Small U of M enrollment numbers rock the boat

First-time freshmen enrollment numbers are down nearly 25% at the University of Memphis. Enrollment is also down at Christian Brothers University, Rhodes College, and Southwest Tennessee Community College.

dailymemphian.com

So since it's a pay site you want to maybe elaborate on it or should we just guess details?

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Sounds like a Memphis problem to me, every college there is down. Nobody wants to live there.

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

College enrollment dropped nationwide during the pandemic and never recovered. It had been trending lower as early as 2010. When the cost of a tuition drops enrollment will go back up. There's about a million fewer students enrolled across the country compared to 2019.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

The FAFSA delay hasn’t helped any at all as well.

Is next year’s FAFSA already off the rails?

After this year’s disastrous launch of the financial aid form, federal officials say next year’s version will be out on time and with fewer problems. College financial aid professionals are skeptical.

www.insidehighered.com

 

[SteelCurtain74]

The increase in kids choosing trade schools instead of universities play a part in lower university enrollments.

More Americans ditching 4-year college degrees for 2-year trade programs

Vocational programs saw one of the highest numbers of student enrollment in fall 2023, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

www.newsweek.com

More students are learning to be mechanics, chefs, and construction workers as college enrollment shrinks

Construction, culinary, and mechanic trade programs all saw enrollment increase between 2021 to 2022, per the National Student Clearinghouse.

www.businessinsider.com

Kids see a path to immediate employment after graduating a trade school.

 

[Maroon13]

Sounds like a Memphis problem to me, every college there is down. Nobody wants to live there.

Yep. They can't attract out of state kids because of the city. Kids in surrounding counties go to OM, MSU, Ark and UT for many reasons and the city is one them.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

The increase in kids choosing trade schools instead of universities play a part in lower university enrollments.

More Americans ditching 4-year college degrees for 2-year trade programs

Vocational programs saw one of the highest numbers of student enrollment in fall 2023, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

www.newsweek.com

More students are learning to be mechanics, chefs, and construction workers as college enrollment shrinks

Construction, culinary, and mechanic trade programs all saw enrollment increase between 2021 to 2022, per the National Student Clearinghouse.

www.businessinsider.com

Kids see a path to immediate employment after graduating a trade school.

I want to see the stats for Tennessee.

Community College enrollment nationally has been down since Covid and there’s the Enrollment Cliff.

But Tennessee has their Colleges of Applied Technology which do a lot of training there and more importantly their Reconnect program which provides for free schooling at the community and technical colleges for folks with no degrees.