State’s colleges see enrollment dip slowing, but fall undergraduate totals still ‘troubling’

COLLEGES NATIONWIDE AND in California continue to lose undergraduate students, but the declines have slowed compared to the past two years when the pandemic upended education, a national report shows.

California saw a 1.1 percent drop in undergraduates since last year, a slower decline than last fall when enrollment dipped 5.9 percent, according to preliminary fall 2022 data released Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.