After four decades of steady enrollment growth interrupted only briefly in the wake of the September 11th terror attacks, international student enrollments have recently declined. New enrollments fell by just over 3% between the 2015/16 and 2016/17 academic years. The decline in 2017/18 was even deeper
...For the past half-century, the earnings of Americans with no more than a high-school education have stagnated or fallen. And, while workers with college degrees have consistently earned higher wages, a sizable share of students does not complete a college degree. These trends have been accompanied by an
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College graduates have more career opportunities and earn substantially more over their lifetimes than those who attain only a high school degree. There is even more of an earnings boost from attending a highly selective college. Yet low-income students with strong academic credentials are less likely
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