U.S. undergraduate enrollment continues to drop

Why is it "fortunate that women are graduating at a higher rates than men." Shouldn't this ideally be equal??

College helps with getting internships

College provides too little value for too much money and many colleges should stop existing.

Good. Most of it is brainwashing anyway.

Knew this bubble would eventually burst

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Who the heck can afford it?

It is all about the cost. Tuition is totally ridiculous now.

Maybe people finally realize taking out student loans for your masters in Queer Theory isn't worth it.

There is no solution to college cost other than the government picking up the tab. The increase in cost is due to salary and facilities. You want brilliant researchers and faculty with experience? You need to pay up or they go to the private sector. You want state of the art facilities (most do)? Your tuition dollars help fund that.

There’s no ‘fix’ that doesn’t involve degrading the campus or the quality of staff, unfortunately.

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Good a bunch of useless degrees

How about they stop expecting 6 figures for a piece of paper that's maybe worth 4, if it's worth anything to job seekers?

At this point, colleges should start proving their financial worth, instead of us students having to prove our academic worth.

Seriously Gender?



No it's about how expensive 🫰🏽 it is.

Shouldn't most college degrees be online at this point?
I see no reason why an education should cost more than $8K a year.
And smarter people are more likely to go college, so of course they are generally going to earn more. Correlation does not equal causation.

If college prices are as high as they are now, THEN LET THE SYSTEM BURN!

It needs to. You don't need a degree to be a plumber, electrician, barber, HVAC, brick mason, pour concrete, build houses (carpenter), auto mechanic and etc. (yet) They all make 6 figures plus. Yea its work, so what.

Plus cost is a issue for less salary

The one size fits all approach doesn’t work. Not every student should attend college; nor should every student attend a trade school. There are careers where college is necessary and if every student attends trade schools then you will have a glut of tradesmen driving down earnings.

The primary reason for the rising tuition is the explosion of administrators and their support staff. Most colleges now employ far more non-faculty employees than faculty. The faculty who are hired to teach undergraduates are overwhelmingly (75%) adjunct who are paid below the poverty line with few or no benefits and no job security. The tenure track faculty tend to specialize in research, much of which no one reads. The readership on social science/humanities articles is on average just over four readers per article and in the natural sciences that figure is below one reader per article. While some research is useful and beneficial, the vast majority is simply busy work for tenure-track faculty.

Then we have the move away from a traditional curriculum in the social sciences and humanities with an emphasis on preserving the intellectual traditions of the West and training students in critical thinking so that they can reason for themselves to the truth to radical Neo-Marxist indoctrination that denies the value of Western Civilization, evidence and reason and even the truth with a capital T.

Where will we be as a nation in 10 years?

I fear for USA 🇺🇸 ❤️

Applications at the highest rated 200 universities in the US have been increasing and were very high this year. It’s the lower Uni’s that must be having the problem.

Because you can get $20/hour to sling fast food. Why go through the effort and spend the money.

Here's a possibility of the reduced enrollment - abortion losses has come to the fore.

Why is this lady so fixated on race?

“Fortunately in the US we do graduate more women than men..”. Why fortunately?

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Before committing to a major in college you need to ask yourself this question. "What skills will I have to offer a potential employer once I graduate?" If you can't think any, you need to rethink your major. I was fortunate that I went to community college studied Mechanical Engineering Technology and after graduating was offered a job as an Apprentice Machinist at GE. This was 1978 , I have never been unemployed and worked my way up to a very rewarding career. College is a great choice if you choose a right major.

If college students are happy with no gym, fancy dorm, no recording, no advisors, etc., higher education can be affordable. In addition, positions and offices required because of government regulation pile on the tuition.

Was a non traditional student. I hit the ground running at 24, when I could file FASFA under my own income and was able to get financial grants. 4 year colleges seriously don’t get non traditional students at all. Until they do, they’ll continue to bite the toast.

We’re going backwards in terms of education a slump

College is more expensive but that isn't the main problem. The main issue is you can learn nearly anything you could learn at a college online for free. Why go $50-100k or more in debt for something you can get online for free? At that point your paying for the piece of paper (degree) at the end and nothing else. Literally paying for an exclusive "you get to have a nicer job" ticket.

Let’s stop making students take general education courses that have nothing to do with their field of study. This will save them time and money.

That's because educational institutions are basically scams. You end up in debt without a promising job--especially a job you went to school for. Some jobs don't even require a college degree.

Interesting how they don’t care about white males. A lot of zoomers realized that if you don’t get a target school you’re basically just mass chaff in the machine and you could be better off getting into the trades

Good, a 4 year degree is grossly overvalued.

Yet another thing the entitled generation (boomers) messed up for the younger generations. students should be able to afford college while working a minimum wage job and not leave college with 10s of thousands of dollars in debt

They are failing to mention that the first two years of college are a waste of time and money for most degrees. Students are forced to take liberal arts classes that don’t translate into a paying career before getting to take the classes that actually interest them or translate into money. Colleges have become indoctrination centers not education centers. If many of those employed by colleges had to do real work or justify their existence they would fail. Get rid of the classes that are a joke or at least don’t force students to have to take them and lower the costs and you’ll see the decline slow down. People are seeing higher education as a waste of time and money.

A society that has made education not worthwhile doesn't have a bright future.

Comments are more informative than any other article or video I’ve watched. 🤔

It's a fairly simple answer: it's unaffordable.

Fewer kids, highr costs. Maybe start getting those Boomers back into the schools to prevent retirement and SS payments? SAVE M ON ENY!

Hot take: trade jobs or skill work is quite limited due to the rise in technological advances in the last few decades. With the increase in enrollment to trade schools and a decrease in college admissions, it won't change most things in many americans everyday lives. Beside jobs such as in the justice system, political scientists, medical system and engineering which all required a high education. However, with few applications applying for med school every there could be an increase in death rates if there isnt a change in education regarding health.

Enrollment is mainly dropping because of demographics; there are fewer and fewer high school graduates in the USA.

People realize the costs of University/College is not worth it. Student debt has reached $1Trillion and students are taught by poorly paid adjunct professors. Most of the tuition/fees go to adminstrators and not to the teachers/professors. The U.S. has a lousy public education system which has been politicized and worsened with a lack of student discipline (due to poor and negligent parenting). Now their Universities are deteriorating. If this trend continues, the future for the U.S. is BLEAK and it will not be competitive with rapidly developed countries such as China. Unlike N. European countries where tuition is low and taxes are high, Americans do NOT see or value higher education as other countries and consider it "socialism". Very myopic. Whatever happened to low cost universities such as those in the 1950s/60s and the GI bill??

It's unfortunate that this CBS News segment, including the invited guest interview, never mentioned the concept of 'supply and demand' and the concept of 'cost benefit analysis'.
The news program did discuss the university/college education 'cost' issue but never touched on what the US job market is looking for what kind of University/College education
specialties nor what the entry jobs paid salaries compared with the average 4 years student loans. Sad.

When tuition is increasing, enrollment probably drops...

This women is the perfect embodiement of why enrollment is down. Men are outnumbered almost 70-30 currently in higher education but she doesn't notice a problem and in fact sees it as a positive. Then she has the audacity to focus on a study about why women struggle in school. The absolute irony.

It took me 7 years to go part-time to get my degree. The cost is really room and board, I was able to work and go to school. I went to a state university and majored in IT. I was bio-med and worked on medical devices for a blood bank. I would suggest if you want to get a degree that you couple it with a technology. For example, if you are into art, you might want to get a degree in graphics design and do your artwork on the side. Back in the beginning of the 20th century, colleges were created to produce well-rounded people, and schools after high school were only for the rich or ultra smart people. With the increase in tuition, you need an ROI when thinking about college. You will be drowning in debt if you do not think about this.