MORE STUDENTS NOT RETURNING TO COLLEGE

MORE STUDENTS NOT RETURNING TO COLLEGE

More than 77?

"* thousand./// fall semester is in full swing for many colleges across our nation... but some students are choosing to put college on hold.

Kimt news 3 maleeha kamal shows us the latest data.

I'm currently at university of minnesota rochester... i spoke to one student who tells me that there just aren't that many people in her classes this semster.

A recent census survey indicates that 16 million college students aren't returning to school this fall.

The reasons are simple ?

"* students either dont want to risk their health or are struggling to pay for their college tuition.

Sam titus is entering her sophmore year at umr. she says her classmates who have left school say that distance learning isn't the route they want to take.

"some students are looking for that college experience and you cant get it in a pandemic.

So the people i've talked to personally they want to come back to college.

They want to go back to school in a semster or a year when the pandemic has kind of cleared."

Students from families that earn less than $75,000 a year are more than twice as likely to have canceled college plans this semester.

About 100?

"* thousand fewer hih school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college this year.

This is according to a national college attainment network analysis of