(2017-07-30) This Is The Way The College Bubble Ends

This Is the Way the College Education ‘Bubble’ Ends

the number of college enrollees has declined for five consecutive years.

1. The college pipeline is drying up

The United States is running out of teenagers.

2. There are too many colleges

3. The bubble that’s popping isn’t American colleges, overall—it’s for-profit colleges

But it’s also possible that something less quantifiable has changed—for example, that families have become savvier higher-ed shoppers, or that years of public outcry about tuition costs and student debt have encouraged more public universities to rein in their costs.