{"id":21165,"date":"2026-02-01T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=21165"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:01:58","slug":"re-enrollment-trends-of-some-college-no-credential-adults-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2026\/02\/01\/re-enrollment-trends-of-some-college-no-credential-adults-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Enrollment Trends of &#8216;Some College, No Credential&#8217; Adults in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With this blog post, we return to our blog series where we explore data from an updated report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nscresearchcenter.org\/some-college-no-credential-dashboard\/\">National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center<\/a> related to the &#8220;Some College, No Credential&#8221; adult population in America. As we have seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2025\/10\/01\/the-magnitude-of-some-college-no-credential-adults-in-america\/\">previous blog posts<\/a>, the NSC data showed\u00a0<strong>there were approximately 43.1-million \u201cSome College, No Credential\u201d (SCNC) adults across the United States<\/strong>\u00a0in 2023. From this 43.1-million total, the NSC estimated there were almost 38 million &#8220;working age&#8221; adults (18-64 years old) classified as SCNC in 2023, with <strong>2.6 million of those SCNC working adults living in Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond capturing the magnitude of the SCNC population, the NSC data also provided insights into several success metrics related to SCNC students who re-enrolled in higher education. The remainder of this blog post looks at re-enrollment trends nationally and at the state level in terms of total re-enrollment and re-enrollment rates of SCNC adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><u><strong>Overall Re-Enrollment of SCNC Adults<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By way of reminder, the NSC defines an SCNC adult as someone who has been &#8220;stopped out for at least three terms prior to the start of an academic year&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/nscresearchcenter.org\/some-college-no-credential\/\">NSC Definitions<\/a>). In order to determine re-enrollment status, the NSC states that re-enrollment is &#8220;defined as enrolling (part-time or full-time) at least once during an academic year following a stopout of at least three consecutive terms&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/nscresearchcenter.org\/some-college-no-credential-appendix\/\">NSC Definitions<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the first visualization below, we can see that <strong>2.7% (or just over 1 million) of the 37.6 million SCNC working adults (18-64 years old) re-enrolled during the 2023-2024 academic year<\/strong> in the United States. On the x-axis, the national average across all states for the <strong>number of re-enrolled SCNC working adults was 17,835<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In terms of re-enrollment rate, Utah held the top spot with 4% (14,987 out of 379,401) of their SCNC working adults re-enrolling in AY2023-2024, closely followed by Arizona (3.9%, 28,312 out of 726,294) and Maryland (3.9%, 23,296 out of 602,232). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Looking at total numbers of re-enrollment by state, California led all states with almost 170,000 SCNC adults who re-enrolled (169,952 out of 5.94 million, 2.9%). <strong>Texas was second with 81,468 re-enrollees out of 2.64 million SCNC working adults, placing Texas 7th in terms of re-enrollment rate at 3.1%<\/strong>. Florida (45,379 out of 1.6 million, 2.8%) and New York (43,126 out of 1.9 million, 2.2%) were the other states with re-enrollment totals for SCNC adults exceeding 40,000 in the NSC data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.kt-tabs-id21165_a514e7-9b > .kt-tabs-content-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-tab{border-top:3px solid var(--global-palette1, #3182CE);border-right:0px solid var(--global-palette1, #3182CE);border-bottom:0px solid var(--global-palette1, #3182CE);border-left:0px solid var(--global-palette1, #3182CE);border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);background:var(--global-palette9, #ffffff);}.wp-block-kadence-tabs .kt-tabs-id21165_a514e7-9b > .kt-tabs-title-list 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class=\"kt-title-text\">Overall Re-Enrollment<\/span><\/a><\/li><li id=\"tab-re-enrollmentbygroup\" class=\"kt-title-item kt-title-item-2 kt-tabs-svg-show-always kt-tabs-icon-side-right kt-tab-title-inactive\"><a href=\"#tab-re-enrollmentbygroup\" data-tab=\"2\" class=\"kt-tab-title kt-tab-title-2 \"><span class=\"kt-title-text\">Re-Enrollment by Group<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"kt-tabs-content-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-tab kt-tab-inner-content kt-inner-tab-1 kt-inner-tab21165_401cba-07\"><div class=\"kt-tab-inner-content-inner\">\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"525\" frameborder=\"0\"\n  src=\"https:\/\/observablehq.com\/embed\/7d9017514a3274da@2491?cells=trendsChart&#038;banner=false\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-tab kt-tab-inner-content kt-inner-tab-2 kt-inner-tab21165_72b848-76\"><div class=\"kt-tab-inner-content-inner\">\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"\n  src=\"https:\/\/observablehq.com\/embed\/7d9017514a3274da@2492?cells=dumbbellPlot&#038;banner=false\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><u><strong>Re-Enrollment by Group<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the total number of re-enrolled SCNC adults, the NSC data also included re-enrollment data for &#8220;Recent Stopouts&#8221; and &#8220;Potential Completers.&#8221; In short, Recent Stopouts were those SCNC adults who were newly identified during the reporting year as having stopped out of higher education, while Potential Completers were SCNC adults with &#8220;at least two years of full-time equivalent enrollment in the decade prior to the start of the academic year&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/nscresearchcenter.org\/some-college-no-credential\/\">NSC Definitions<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While certainly not earth-shattering information, the second visualization above (<em>Re-Enrollment by Group<\/em>) clearly shows that <strong>recently stopped-out SCNC working adults are more likely to re-enroll in higher education than those who left college in the more distant past<\/strong>. <em>NOTE: The chart shows a selection of states as opposed to including the complete list of rank-ordered top states<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Recent Stopouts<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At a national level, <strong>almost 240,000 (11.4%) of the 2.1 million SCNC working adults (18-64 years old) who were Recent Stopouts<\/strong> <strong>re-enrolled<\/strong> in the 2023-2024 academic year. There were a total of 18 states that exceeded the group-level national average re-enrollment rate in the NSC data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Utah&#8217;s re-enrollment rate for Recent Stopouts of 22.8% (6,812 of 29,863) led all states by a significant margin, with Maryland second at 16% (6,472 of 40,653).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Texas tied for the 9th-best re-enrollment rate at 12% (20,953 of 175,109)<\/strong>. California&#8217;s 11.7% re-enrollment rate (40,224 of 343,557) was tied for 14th, while Florida&#8217;s 10.9% (10,919 of 100,218) was below the national average.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Potential Completers<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Across the United States, <strong>194,420 (7.2%) of the 2.7 million SCNC working adults who were Potential Completers re-enrolled<\/strong> in the 2023-2024 academic year. There were 13 states that exceeded the national average for this group in the NSC data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maryland (9.8%, 4,187 of 42,595) and Rhode Island (9.4%, 691 of 7,338) were the only two states exceeding a 9-percent re-enrollment rate for Potential Completers. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California had the 3rd-highest re-enrollment rate for Potential Completers at 8.5% (35,057 of 413,293), with <strong>Texas ranking 8th with a 7.7% (15,814 of 206,320) re-enrollment rate for this group<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So What?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NSC&#8217;s re-enrollment data for the &#8220;Some College, No Credential&#8221; working adults strongly reinforces the notion of how important it is to re-engage stopped-out students as early as possible once they&#8217;ve left an institution of higher education. At a national level, when including all SCNC working adults in the data, only 1 out of every 32 SCNC adults re-enrolled in higher education in the AY2023-2024 data. By contrast, <strong>&#8220;Recent Stopouts&#8221; were over 4-times more likely to re-enroll when compared to the overall re-enrollment rate, and &#8220;Potential Completers&#8221; were almost 3-times more likely to re-enroll<\/strong>. Even in Utah, the top-performing state for overall re-enrollment rates, Recent Stopouts were almost 6-times more likely to re-enroll than SCNC working adults in the overall population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting SCNC working adults back into school is just the first step towards success. Once re-enrolled, how effective are colleges and universities in terms of supporting re-enrolled students to promote persistence that leads to credential completion? The outcome-based metrics will serve as the topic of our next blog post in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this blog post, we return to our blog series where we explore data from an updated report by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center related to the &#8220;Some College, No Credential&#8221; adult population in America. 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