Admissions & Enrollment
Our news, opinion, and advice stories about college admissions and enrollment, answer your questions, like:
- Who is admitted to college?
- Who gets a degree?
- How are institutions ensuring that college admissions and enrollment remain equitable?
An Early Look
Fall enrollment growth shouldn’t obscure important changes in who is going to college, and for how long.
The Review | Essay
The overproduction of doctorates in the humanities has ruined the job market.
Advice
Here’s a roadmap for navigating seven key moments that will define your early tenure.
Disappearing Talent
The stakes are high. But the extraordinary politicization of foreign students — and of higher education, in general — has made colleges reluctant to talk about the consequences.
Access & Affordability
The student-debt crisis and rising college costs are some factors driving the trend among elite universities, but policy experts warn it isn’t a catch-all.
Pressure Cooker
They’re navigating demands for an annual miracle: more applicants, more revenue, more everything — no matter the circumstances.
Analysis
We’ve seen what the Trump administration’s stick looks like. Let’s look at its carrot.
ON DEMAND: In today’s competitive enrollment landscape, colleges are rethinking the student journey by focusing on smoother, more intentional transitions from admission to campus life to better set students up for long-term success. In this virtual forum, we explored how campuses are reinventing student engagement. With Support From Acuity Insights. Watch on demand.
Graduate Education
Some signs point to smaller-than-usual cohorts and paused programs in the next academic year.
Data
A growing number of colleges have at least 10 percent of students reporting a disability.
