New Students at U.S. Colleges Drop, Worsening Campus Crisis
- First-year undergraduate enrollment fell 16% this semester
- Higher education is taking a financial hit from the pandemic
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U.S. colleges are seeing sharp declines in enrollment of new students this semester in another sign of the economic toll that Covid-19 is having on higher education.
The number of first-year undergraduate students enrolled fell 16%, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center said in a report Thursday. Total undergraduate enrollment slid 4% from last year at this time, led by international students.