Enrollment Changes: Demographics are Shifting

The period from 2000 to 2015 will see the single largest growth in college enrollments in our nation’s history: upwards of 2 million more students, or nearly 20% growth overall.

The large majority of the new students will be “minorities,” from Latino, Asian/Pacific-Islander, and African-American families. Yet this new generation of students is arriving at college at a time of budget retrenchment and cutbacks for higher education.