Dive Brief:
- George Washington University is looking to growth in its online programs for graduate students to make up for an overall enrollment decline in its graduate programs.
- The number of graduate students in the university’s online programs has increased more than 1,000 in five years, Campus Technology reported.
- George Washington’s online graduate programs have grown by a net of 265 students in the last year, thanks to increases in its nursing and public health schools.
Dive Insight:
The university’s peak year of online graduate program growth was in 2011, with 535 students added. George Washington, which has 25,000 students overall, is ramping up to add five new online programs, with 15 more in the pipeline. For the nursing school, all of the programs are offered online. The nursing school and public health school, which have seen the fastest growth, hired third-party companies to create and market their online grad programs.