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Why for-profit college enrollment has increased during COVID-19

  • Written by Molly Ott, Associate Professor of Higher & Postsecondary Education, Arizona State University
Why for-profit college enrollment has increased during COVID-19The convenience of distance learning at for-profit colleges has contributed to their rising enrollment. damircudic/E+ via Getty Images

When COVID-19 hit the U.S., many experts warned that America’s colleges and universities could be devastated. Some of them predicted enrollment declines of up to 20%.

So far, those initial forecasts were worse...

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