College Enrollments Decline For Third Straight Year Amid Strong Job Market, Student Debt Fears

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College enrollment across the United States continues to decline, squashing higher education officials’ hopes of a post-Covid rebound in college-going rates, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Across the board undergraduate headcounts fell by 1.1% this fall—a softer decline than the 3.1% drop in the fall of 2021, but Doug Shapiro, vice president of research and executive director of the research center, is still troubled by the numbers. Between the fall of 2020 and 2022, undergraduate college enrollment has declined by 4.2%.

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