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Texas Higher Education Fall 2006 Preliminary Enrollment Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, October 26, 2006. Background. Actual enrollments usually 6% lower than preliminary reporting The decline varies by sector. 80% of Growth at Two-Year Colleges. *Career College data not included.
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Texas Higher Education Fall 2006 Preliminary EnrollmentTexas Higher Education Coordinating Board, October 26, 2006
Background • Actual enrollments usually 6% lower than preliminary reporting • The decline varies by sector THECB 10/2006
80% of Growth at Two-Year Colleges THECB 10/2006 *Career College data not included.
High Plains -2 Metroplex 10,506 -0.0% Upper Rio Grande 222 Central 4,533 3.8% 0.4% 1.3% 0.5% 2.4% -2.3% 2.1% 1.3% 4.1% South Texas 8,382 Gulf Coast 3,103 Metroplex and South Texas had Largest Enrollment Increase THECB 10/2006
Hispanic growth was 61% of the increase THECB 10/2006 *Holds Career College enrollment constant.
South Texas Enrollment Changes THECB 10/2006
Metroplex Growth THECB 10/2006
Participation Since 2000: 226,837 Increase 226,837 THECB 10/2006
Annual Enrollment Increase THECB 10/2006
Public two-year colleges enroll an increasing proportion of higher education students THECB 10/2006
Questions? • Drop from Rita just showing up • Have persistence rates dropped? • Graduation rate increases? • Increase in tuition and fees? • Fewer stop outs coming back into higher education? • Fewer new students (not recent high school grads)? THECB 10/2006
Summary • Increase is more than two times larger than last year’s growth • 80% of growth was at two-year colleges • 2006 statewide Hispanic enrollment continues to grow, but still has not reached the 2005 CTG target THECB 10/2006