With the release of the 2025 Carnegie Classification system at the end of the spring semester, we have spent a great deal of time looking at the various aspects of data incorporated into the new three-pronged Carnegie approach that includes Institutional Classification, Student Access And Earnings Classification, and Research Activity Designations. Within these broader constructs,…
Throughout our past few blog posts, numerous data elements have supported the broad perspective that Regional Public Universities (RPUs) are distinctive entities when compared to Non-RPU institutions. In reviewing over 100 numerical variables published by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC), meaningful differences existed across more than 8 out of every 10 variables…
As the calendar flipping to August signifies the end of summer break for students and faculty alike, our “Summer of Carnegie” series will come to an end this month as well. The past few months have seen us walk through data pertaining to the new 2025 Carnegie Classification system, including new Research Activity Designations and…
Over the course of the past few blog posts, we have presented data pertaining to the new 2025 Carnegie Classification system, including the last two posts that introduced the designations for Regional Public Universities (RPUs) and Rural-Serving Institutions (RSIs). As previously discussed, RSI status was one of more than 125 variables that the Alliance for…
In our previous blog post, we introduced a new framework, Regional Public Universities (RPUs), that was used in the 2025 Carnegie Classification system’s Student Access and Earnings Classification (SAEC) designation. Developed by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC), our initial presentation of RPUs provided a very small sample of the more than 125…
A recent Wall Street Journal article’s title captured the concern of many in higher education in 2025: America’s College Towns Go From Boom to Bust (WSJ). Based on their national analysis of 748 public four-year colleges and universities, the authors found that “enrollment at the most prominent state universities increased 9% in 2023 compared to…
In our previous blog post, we introduced the new 2025 Carnegie Classification system. Since its inception in 1973, the Carnegie Classification system has primarily relied on its Basic Classification framework that served as an overarching designation for institutions of higher education. The new 2025 Carnegie vintage expands the single Basic Classification into three separate classifications:…
The more than 50-year progression of the Carnegie Classification system has led to arguably the largest revision since its inception in 1973 with the recent release of the 2025 Carnegie Classification framework. Through its most recent update in 2021, the “Basic Classification” served as an all-compassing designation for institutions of higher education that recognized institutional…
For a moment, let’s take a stroll down memory lane in Texas higher education. Traveling back 25 years, we stop in the fall semester of 2000 to see that total enrollment at Texas public colleges and universities was just over 862,000. Of those fall 2000 enrollees, 17,784 (2% of total enrollment) were dual credit students,…