Is college enrollment among older adults increasing? Depends who you ask
“More than 19 million undergraduate students are enrolled in colleges and universities for fall 2018, according to a report this week from the National Center for Education Statistics, and many of them are adults aged 25 and older. NCES says this older student population peaked in 2010 at 8.9 million and has declined since then. But higher education experts and other federal data tell a different story. The number of older adult learners is rising, some say, and higher education institutions should do more to support them.”