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College Enrollment
College enrollment is defined as the number of individuals currently pursuing higher education. Higher education in the United States consists of technical colleges, community colleges, and 4-year colleges and universities. The number and characteristics of students enrolled in college vary over time and by type of higher education institution. This entry provides an overview of current trends in enrollment, the factors that affect whether an individual enrolls in any college, and the factors that affect whether an individual enrolls in a specific college.
Current Trends in Enrollment Rates
Traditional college students are high school completers who are between the ages of 18 and 24. Nontraditional college students are typically older students who may or may not have completed high school. Figure 1 shows the age distribution ...
- Accountability and Education Policy
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- Nonwage Benefits
- Present Value of Earnings
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- Production and Costs of Schooling
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- Adequacy: Professional Judgment Approach
- Adequacy: Successful School District Approach
- Administrative Spending
- Adult Education
- Allocative Efficiency
- Baumol’s Cost Disease
- Capacity Building of Organizations
- Capitalist Economy
- Central Office, Role and Costs of
- Compound Annual Growth Rate
- Contracting for Services
- Cost Accounting
- Cost of Education
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Data Envelopment Analysis
- Department of Defense Schools
- Digital Divide
- Distance Learning
- District Size
- Dual Enrollment
- Economic Cost
- Economies of Scale
- Education Production Functions and Productivity
- Education Technology
- Educational Innovation
- Elasticity
- Enrollment Counts
- Evolution in Authority Over U.S. Schools
- Extended Day
- External Social Benefits and Costs
- Hedonic Wage Models
- Homeschooling
- Infrastructure Financing and Student Achievement
- Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships
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- Professional Development
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- School District Budgets
- School Size
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- Teacher Compensation
- Teacher Experience
- Technical Efficiency
- Revenue and Aid for Schools
- Bilingual Education
- Block Grants
- Bonds in School Financing
- Capital Financing for Education
- Categorical Grants
- Early Childhood Education
- Education Finance
- Enrollment Counts
- Equalization Models
- Fiscal Environment
- Fiscal Neutrality
- General Obligation Bonds
- Guaranteed Tax Base
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Infrastructure Financing and Student Achievement
- Lotteries for School Funding
- Parcel Tax
- Private Contributions to Schools
- Progressive Tax and Regressive Tax
- Property Taxes
- Pupil Weights
- School District Cash Flow
- School District Wealth
- Special Education Finance
- State Education Agencies
- Tax Burden
- Tax Elasticity
- Tax Incidence
- Tax Limits
- Tax Yield
- Title I
- Tuition and Fees, K-12 Private Schools
- Tuition Tax Credits
- Unfunded Mandates
- Statistical Methods in the Economics of Education
- Data Envelopment Analysis
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- Economic Cost
- Effect Size
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- Present Value of Earnings
- Propensity Score Matching
- Pupil Weights
- Quantile Regression
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- Randomized Control Trials
- Regression-Discontinuity Design
- Reliability
- Selection Bias
- Tiebout Sorting
- Validity
- Teachers and Teacher Labor Markets
- Comparative Wage Index
- Dual Labor Markets
- Faculty in American Higher Education
- Hedonic Wage Models
- Licensure and Certification
- National Board Certification for Teachers
- Nonwage Benefits
- Pay for Performance
- Performance Evaluation Systems
- Private Fundraising in Postsecondary Education
- Professional Development
- Reduction in Force
- Salary Schedule
- School Boards, School Districts, and Collective Bargaining
- Teacher Autonomy
- Teacher Compensation
- Teacher Effectiveness
- Teacher Evaluation
- Teacher Experience
- Teacher Intelligence
- Teacher Pensions
- Teacher Performance Assessment
- Teacher Supply
- Teacher Training and Preparation
- Teacher Value-Added Measures
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