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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. percent decline in Ph.D.s

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

More from UB: Computer science degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Northland College has operated at a deficit for eight years, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports. (Updated: Feb. In the meantime, the college will provide students with academic and financial advisors to assist them with transferring elsewhere.

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These 18 schools are offering the most competitive AI tracks for undergrads

University Business

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 ” ‘Stopping the Bleeding’ Although freshman enrollment is on the rise, overall enrollment remained nearly unchanged from fall 2021, declining by 0.6 percent, and in 2021, it decreased by 6.7 While the number still remains well below the 2.49

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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.

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Record number of US visas to be issued to Indian students in 2024

The PIE News

There has been a year-on-year growth in the total number of US study visas issued for Indian students, from over 96,000 in 2021 and 133,000 in 2022, to more than 140,000 in 2023. “The I am seeing more interest in courses like Social Sciences than before. While most other institutions are STEM-oriented, we are a performing arts school.