Student
Enrollment Trends and Projections Dashboard
The Student Enrollment Trends and Projections Dashboard is a tool within the suite of The MAPS Project data products created to show higher education decision-makers the relationship between population data, enrollment data, and the potential impacts of trends like distance learning. The dashboard will help higher education leaders gain foresight into upcoming shifts in the industry that could impact their institutions.
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The dashboard will provide users with an understanding of how and where undergraduate students are choosing to attend college, how that has changed over time, and what enrollment could look like in the future. This will help to inform recruitment efforts, strategic planning, resource allocation, as well as investment into programs and the infrastructure of online learning.
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What the dashboard shows
What the dashboard is not
Student Enrollment Trends: including historical enrollment data, the ratio between the number of available students to predicted enrollment, and enrollment projections up to 2030.
Student Migration Trends: showing how many first-year, first-time, full-time students are currently enrolled at institutions within their home states and the percentage enrolled in out-of-state schools.
Distance Learning Trends: of exclusively remote undergraduate students, categorized by in-state vs. out-of-state status.
​Condemning: Does not predict the future failure (or success) of any state
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Exhaustive: One resource to be used in conjunction with other tools for a robust and contextualized understanding
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Static: Expect changes to the dashboard over time as new data and feedback become available
Understand the Tool
View national level data
The Dashboard at a Glance
Additional resources
Several leading organizations and individuals have made important contributions to increasing transparency around the costs, value, finances, and economic models of higher education.
This index is part of the MAPS Project, which is hosted and run by the Sorenson Impact Center. The MAPS project charts the shifting landscape of higher education to help create a more equitable future. This project is based on research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. These materials do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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