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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · today 14:34 EDT

Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff

A new article from Bloomberg says dozens of America's colleges "succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and forcing faculty and staff to hunt for new jobs."


The country's tumbling birth rate is pushing schools toward a "demographic cliff," where a steadily dropping population of people in their late teens and early 20s will leave desks and classrooms empty. M

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