Answer:
ow many students are enrolled in community colleges? ... How does the population of community college students break down by race/ethnicity and income? ... What percentage of community college students obtain a college credential? ... How many community college students complete their remedial requirements?
Step-by-step explanation:
Provisional National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data on unduplicated year-round enrollment (as opposed to fall enrollment only) indicate that 8.2 million undergraduates were enrolled in public two-year colleges in 2018–19.
In fall 2018, 5.6 million students were enrolled in public, two-year colleges. About 2 million were full-time students, and 3.6 million were part-time.
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center estimates that 5.4 million students were enrolled in public two-year colleges in fall 2019, down 1.4% from fall 2018.
However, these studies underestimate the number of community college students, as about 100 community colleges offer a small number of bachelor’s degree programs and thus are listed in NCES as four-year institutions. According to a CCRC analysis correcting for this misclassification, 6.7 million students were enrolled at community colleges in fall 2017, and nearly 10 million students enrolled at a community college at some point during the 2017-18 academic year.
