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Clearinghouse Enrollment Insights Series:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Preliminary Fall Enrollment Trends<\/h1>\n

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November 11, 2025<\/p>\n

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The Preliminary Fall Enrollment Trends<\/em><\/strong> report is published every November, providing preliminary enrollment estimates for the fall term. It is first of the Clearinghouse Enrollment Insights<\/em> series, designed to offer institutions, policy makers, and researchers an early look at enrollment trends for the fall. Analysis is based on a panel of institutions that consistently reported their fall term enrollments in each of the years included in the report.<\/p>\n

This report evolved from our previous Stay Informed<\/em> reports that served the urgent needs of higher education community for timely enrollment updates, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. With refined methodology, the Preliminary Fall Enrollment Trends<\/em> report is designed to create better connections between preliminary and final enrollment data to maximize the planning value for institutions.<\/p>\n

The report\u2019s dashboard features national and state-level data on annual enrollment changes across the three most recent years. Dashboard users can look at preliminary fall enrollment trends by institutional characteristics (including measures of sector, admission selectivity, and locale) and student groups (including measures of enrollment intensity, credential program, demographics, neighborhood income, and major).<\/p>\n

The estimates provided in this report are preliminary and subject to revision. The Final Fall Enrollment Trends<\/em> report<\/a> will be released in January to provide final enrollment estimates for the fall term.<\/p>\n

> Go back to Clearinghouse Enrollment Insights<\/a><\/strong><\/em> series page.<\/p>\n

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Fall 2025 Highlights<\/h2>\n

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