College Board Research conducted extensive research examining the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on enrollment and retention rates for recent high school graduates. The first report, College Enrollment and Retention in the Era of Covid, looks at college enrollment rates for students who graduated high school in 2020, and college retention patterns for students who graduated high school in 2019. The 2021 Update examines college enrollment rates for students who graduated high school in 2021 as well as college retention patterns for students who graduated high school in 2020. The results in both reports are based on a sample of nearly 10 million students who attended more than 22,000 U.S. high schools and 2,800 U.S. colleges, drawing on data from College Board and the National Student Clearinghouse.
This report provides a rigorous, quantitative examination of how the pandemic continues to impact recent high school graduates with new data on fall 2021 college enrollment rates among students in the class of 2021 and first-year retention rate patterns among college students from the high school class of 2020.
View the appendix tables for the 2021 update of the College Enrollment and Retention in the Era of Covid report.
This report provides a rigorous, quantitative examination of how covid-19 affected the fall 2020 college enrollment plans of the class of 2020 and first-year to second-year retention patterns among college students from the high school class of 2019.
View the appendix tables for the 2020 College Enrollment and Retention in the Era of Covid report.