College enrollment of adults 25 and older fell by more than 18 percent from the fall of 2011, the year they hit their peak over a decade, to the fall of 2017. Enrollment of college students in the 24-and-under age group grew steadily, for the most part, and rose nearly 15 percent from the fall of 2007 to the fall of 2017.
Note: Figures represent all full- and part-time undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students whose ages were known and who were enrolled in the fall of 2017 in degree-granting two-year and four-year institutions in the United States that were eligible to participate in the Title IV student-aid program. The most-recent figures published in the U.S. Department of Education’s Digest of Education Statistics were used. Questions or comments on Almanac should be sent to Ruth Hammond.
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