Pending college enrollment cliff

[Trapped in California]

Came up in my news feed today

https://www.kcur.org/education/2025-04-09/missouri-college-enrollment-cliff

Source article lists some familiar names as in financial peril - Bradley, D+, Coe College, others. Uncertain the exact methodology they used. Can't imagine Drake flaming out with all the graduate programs it offers. But who knows...?

https://sfstl.org/unprecedented-college-closures-students-advised-to-investigate-school-finances/#_ftn1

[FOTY]

Having dated a D+ prof and tailgating with one of their finance dept employees, I can say D+ is struggling, big. If not for law and pharmacy, they would be near gone - think WIU with less state support.

[ronfitch]

The “Cliff of 2025” was talked about a lot in HE and conferences back in 2015-20 timeframe. Covid hit and it fell off the radar as schools scrambled to figure out instruction, research, operations and everything else for about 15 months. Demographers have been warning of this for more than a decade - birth rate dropped during the 2008 recession and never recovered.