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COVID-19 Impacts CUNY Enrollment and Students

Student retention rates were 28% lower for students attending online classes than students attending in-person classes since the pandemic began, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The retention rate at Hunter College decreased from 85.3% to 81.2% from 2017 to 2018, according to City University of New York data. Since the beginning of 2020, […]

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Hunter College Students Sees Enrollment Increase During Pandemic

Hunter College saw a 4.1% decline in retention rates in 2018, according to the CUNY Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. But in 2020, enrollment rose from 23,193 to 24,052, according to a financial report from the University Budget Office. New York State went into lockdown in March 2020 which has led to many challenges […]

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CUNY Students and Retention Affected By Covid-19

New York State went into lockdown in March of 2020 to combat infection and death rates from the novel coronavirus. CUNY campuses opted for online distance learning like many colleges and universities across the country. Hunter College has historically had among the top five highest retention rates out of all CUNY schools. According to data […]

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The Pandemic’s Effect on Retention Rates at CUNY Hunter College

CUNY Hunter College dropped 4.8% in retention rates from 2017 to 2018, according to data from the CUNY Office of Institutional Research.  Enrollment at Hunter rose from 23,193 in 2019 to 24,052 in 2020, according to a financial report from the University Budget Office. Additional CUNY data collected from 1996 to 2018 shows that Hunter […]

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Retention Rates Neutral and Enrollment Rates Increase Amidst Pandemic at Hunter

Enrollment at Hunter rose from 23,193 in 2019 to 24,052 in 2020, according to a financial report from the University Budget Office. Hunter College’s retention rate remained relatively the same, 81% for full-time students, from 2018 to 2019, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It was slightly lower by 0.2% than the previous […]