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Last week's big number: 662,000 fewer undergraduates
A recap of last week's major higher ed news starts off with a stark enrollment statistic.
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Last week's big numbers
662,000
Decline in undergraduates enrolled in college this spring versus last spring, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That's a 4.7% decline.
$55 million
Cash price ed tech company GoGuardian paid for Zovio's TutorMe subsidiary in a sale giving financial flexibility to the embattled University of Arizona Global Campus service provider.
40%
Share of borrowers with outstanding debt who said the benefits of their college education outweighed the costs. That's sharply lower than 63% of those who’d borrowed and paid off their debt who said the same.
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