This report sets up the methodology for enrollment estimates and projections, and indicates the general expectation of future enrollments. Estimates for 1969, 1970 and 1971, useful for short-range instructional and budget planning are based on the number of high school graduates and of new students. Projections for 1972 through 1984, useful in…

A research project concerned with college planning for the period 1960-1985 is described. Five basic questions were discussed--(1) what is the outlook for population changes, for the country as a whole and by categories of the population? (2) what is the outlook for jobs, and what are the implications for training? (3) what is the outlook for…

Assumptions, purposes, and factors of short range estimates and long range projections are discussed. The combined ratio method and the cohort-survival techniques were procedures used for making estimates and projections of student enrollment. The projection for the state system is discussed in terms of sub-projections for undergraduates,…

This paper summarizes the progress of the review of enrollment made by the New York State Regents. The analysis and projections in this paper are limited to full-time, undergraduate, degree-credit enrollment. Detailed data concerning historical trends and projections are contained in the appendix to this paper. The paper attempts to focus on two…

This document reviews the enrollment patterns in Washington's colleges and universities. Emphasis is placed on enrollment trends, enrollment participation, future enrollment trends, and enrollment profile. The enrollment profile encompasses entrances, class mix, age, sex, nonresident enrollment, foreign students and minority student population.…

This document presents some facts, interpretations, trendline indications and opinions on postsecondary/collegiate enrollments in America. Following introductory material, freshmen enrollments, enrollment trends, brief comments upon those developments, and factors to consider in the future are discussed. (MJM)

This manual presents school enumeration techniques to be used for 1-year, 5-year, medium-range, and long-range planning periods. The resulting projections provide estimates of school enrollment by grade for the entire school system. (Author)

The statewide higher education enrollment projections presented in this document are advanced as planning guidelines based on the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's best estimate of future trends and conditions. Tables presented offer information concerning (1) projected college enrollments (resident degree credit) to 1982 for…

Over the past several decades colleges and universities have been experiencing vastly increasing enrollments that have caused institutions to expand programs and facilities to accommodate great numbers of students. Such expansion requires careful planning on the part of higher education administrators and accurate prediction as to the actual…

A study was conducted by Los Angeles City College to determine whether the early registration of spring 1972 was primarily responsible for the inflated enrollment figures for fall 1972 classes. A tabulation by course and department was provided by the college Data Center of the number of enrollments at the close of registration, at the close of…

This document contains a brief on operating grants for the purpose of communicating system estimates of future university operating needs in Ontario universities to the Committee on University Affairs. Section II traces briefly the major financial developments of the past decade and the third section contains some impressions on the impacts of the…

The author of this paper predicts that by 1990, enrollments in metropolitan institutions of higher education will increase by 100% and that costs for these same institutions will increase by 200%. In other words, statistics reveal that in 1968 there were 4.1 million students enrolled in metropolitan colleges and universities and that the cost at…

The majority of 143 questionnaire respondents in this 1976-77 study predicted increased enrollment in four-year journalism programs. (KS)

Explores current trends in school enrollment, projected enrollment through 2000, and implications for educators. A new baby "boomette", beginning in 1973 and peaking in 1988, will increase school enrollments throughout the 1990s. After 1995, kindergarten enrollment will decline and secondary enrollment, now steadily declining, will…

Presents a model for projecting community college enrollments, providing a rationale for and explanation of the use of the following variables: high school seniors in the district; total population in the district between the ages of 20 and 29, and 30 and 39; insured unemployment rate; and capping of enrollment by senior institutions. (DMM)