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All summer, we’re recapping the previous week with some of the biggest numbers, quotes or takeaways in higher ed.
LAST WEEK’S BIG NUMBERS
40%
Share of chief online officers who say the undergraduate experience will be a balance between in-person and virtual components by 2025, according to an annual poll tracking online education trends. About 45% more think it will be primarily on-campus but still contain some online elements.
135
Number of colleges whose closures were not identified by the U.S. Department of Education until six months or more had elapsed, according to a congressional watchdog’s report looking at the period from 2010 to 2020. That’s 13% of all closures in the time frame. It took the department two or more months to identify a third of college closures.
830
Number of students applying under an automatic admissions pilot program from the Common App. That’s less than 5% of the 17,700 students offered direct admission, but the Common App still said such a policy made students more likely to apply for partner colleges.
