Posted on 01/27/2021 5:01:04 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
The number of students applying to attend one of the State University of New York’s 64 campuses plummeted by 20 percent this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor James Malatras said.
Malatras dropped the bombshell in an op-ed published on Empire Report New York.
“This year at the largest system of public higher education in the country — the State University of New York — our applications are down approximately 20 percent, one of the largest annual decreases in the System’s 73-year history,” Malatras said.
Students can apply to a number of colleges before deciding where to enroll. But the figure is an indicator that student supply is way down during the COV-19 outbreak, where colleges have struggled with campus shutdowns and cancelling in-person classes with remote learning.
The chancellor said the COVID-19 outbreak worsened an ongoing trend of declining enrollment in New York and nationally.
SUNY enrollment of first-time or freshmen undergraduate students sunk ten percent in the fall of 2020 compared to the fall of 2019, a SUNY spokesperson said.
According to the National Student Clearinghouse, freshmen undergraduate enrollment declined 13.1 percent nationally in the fall of 2020, an “unprecedented” loss of 327,5000 students from the prior academic year.
The Post previously reported overall enrollment declines of about 5 percent at both SUNY and CUNY.
SUNY’s actual enrollment drop was most pronounced at its 30 community colleges. The number of students overall fell from 192,959 students in the fall of 2019 to 173,930 in the fall of 2020. That’s 19,029 fewer community college students, or a roughly ten percent decline...
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Maybe they’re applying for Solar Panel training instead ,LOL
Sounds like the state of New York is going to see a tax increase to pay for their state college.
Within a few years, I was making more than the typical college graduate.
Sure, sure. Because of covid. Mmm hmmm
I wish it were higher😉
We need more college age adults to make more common sense economic/educational decisions like what you have described in your own life experience. Our nation would benefit greatly.
If you read the article it’s the community colleges that saw the big decrease.
The feel-good story of the day!
College life now is not appealing especially if you can’t socialize. I would rather go deliver packages for Amazon for a year.
Good news.
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