Something I rarely see mentioned in these discussions is the impact of COVID vaccines and lockdowns/restrictions.
When COVID hit, many students decided to defer a year, waiting either for vaccine requirements to go away, or for restrictions to lift. When these dragged on and lasted longer than one year, a significant number of these students ended up never going to college. I suspect this is why there's a significant drop in enrollment for recent years.
Something I rarely see mentioned in these discussions is the impact of COVID vaccines and lockdowns/restrictions.
When COVID hit, many students decided to defer a year, waiting either for vaccine requirements to go away, or for restrictions to lift. When these dragged on and lasted longer than one year, a significant number of these students ended up never going to college. I suspect this is why there's a significant drop in enrollment for recent years.