{"id":352,"date":"2016-12-20T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:05:34","slug":"new-report-highlights-popular-community-college-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/20\/new-report-highlights-popular-community-college-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Highlights Popular Community College Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" style=\"width: 1256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-353 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/commcollegemajors.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"1256\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/commcollegemajors.jpg 1256w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/commcollegemajors-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/commcollegemajors-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/commcollegemajors-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1256px) 100vw, 1256px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Transportation and law enforcement majors are seeing declining enrollments at America\u2019s community colleges, while history and math programs remain popular among students at two-year schools.<\/p>\n<p>Those findings are included in <a href=\"https:\/\/nscresearchcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CurrentTermEnrollment-Fall2016.pdf\">a new report<\/a> released this week by the National Student Clearinghouse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that the organization\u2019s biannual enrollment report, which uses data from fall 2016, has included information about majors at two-year institutions, notes <a href=\"http:\/\/ccdaily.com\/Pages\/Campus-Issues\/Fall-enrollments-dip-again.aspx\">a recent <em>Community College Daily<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top majors (by percentage) at two-year institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History (9.6 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Architecture and related services (9.4 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics and statistics (8.3 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Psychology (8.2 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Biological and biomedical sciences (8 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top majors (by percentage) losing enrollment at two-year institutions <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation and materials moving (-14.8 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Legal professions and studies (-8.7 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland security, law enforcement, firefighting, and related protective services (-7.6 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Public administration and social service professions (-5.6 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields (-5.3 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation and law enforcement majors are seeing declining enrollments at America\u2019s community colleges, while history and math programs remain popular among students at two-year schools. 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