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The Connection Between Jobs and Enrollment

DALLAS-EXCLUSIVE-Axiometrics Inc. recently reported that, as the job market recovers, college enrollment is dropping. Economists tell GlobeSt.com that the trend shouldn't impact student housing – for now.

By Amy Wolff Sorter | Updated on August 21, 2013

DALLAS-During the Great Recession and its aftermath, jobs were hard to come by. This, in part, spurred a wave of enrollment at institutes of higher learning throughout the United States. But as the Bureau of Labor Statistics continues reporting decent news from the job front, college and university enrollment statistics aren’t quite as sunny.

This was outlined in the extraordinarily grim article recently published in the New York Times entitled “College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers.” And based Axiometrics Inc. recently released statistics showing the correlation between job growth and college/university enrollment decline.

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