Dive Brief:
- Chicago-based Collegis Education recently launched an interactive tool to help colleges and universities explore nationwide trends in higher education.
- Collegis announced the tool as a way to help higher education institutions as they compete for qualified students within a changing landscape.
- In its announcement of the new tool, Collegis drew attention to a statistic about falling college enrollment rates but highlighted the complexity within those numbers. Enrollment for women outpaces men and enrollment rates for Latinos have shown no decline.
Dive Insight:
Collegis’ tool lets users choose high school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, and college graduation rates and then drill deeper based on race, gender, and state. Its website also includes a number of charts based on higher education trends it has identified as some of the most compelling. The more ways institutions can use data to improve decision-making, the better — for student outcomes and an institution’s bottom line.