(04-09-2022 07:21 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  An interesting article about states that provide free college but also had an interesting factoid below.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/free-col...tates.html

Quote:The number of undergraduates in college is now down 5.1% compared to two years ago — a loss of nearly 1 million students, according to a report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — with the schools serving low- and middle-income students seeing the largest declines.

I didn't really see anything in the article that mentions it, but I would like to know how many kids in the US are between the ages of 18-22 now and 10 years ago. I am sure that age group is smaller now. You don't see to many families with more than 3 kids anymore. When I grew up, my family had 5 kids and we were the smallest family in the neighborhood.
I also bet a lot of college eligible kids decided to take the armed forces way of life than the educational way of life which would also factor in the decline of college enrollment.