24 Stats for 2024

Inside Higher Ed

Ashley Mowreader

December 21, 2023

In creating effective student success interventions, higher education stakeholders must benchmark their progress and track metrics that gauge program goals and future sustainability. To assist in strategic planning for the upcoming year, Inside Higher Ed compiled 24 stats to consider in 2024.

1. More than 600,000 new students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible for Pell Grant funding, due to the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid form, launching this winter. This brings the total number of students eligible for maximum Pell Grants to over 5.2 million.

2. Upward transfers (from community colleges to universities) fell 7.5 percent in fall 2022, compared to the year prior.

3. Just thirty-six percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education.

4. Ninety percent of people see college campuses as places where disparate ideas and values can and should be discussed.

5. Nineteen percent of teens who know about ChatGPT have used it for schoolwork.

6. A little under 2 percent of college students are undocumented.

7. Around one-third of students globally feel negative or neutral about their choice of college.

8. Two-thirds of chief business officers at colleges and universities believe their institution has more academic programs, majors or departments than it should.

9. Fifty-seven percent of chief financial officers in higher ed say mental health or wellness services were added or improved in 2022 for retention.

10. Forty-six percent of faculty members say their students come to them with a mental health concern multiple times per month or more.

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