Multiyear Trends (IPEDS)
Multimodal Enrollment at the Ivy League: 2019-2023
Oct 23, 2024

Multimodal Enrollment at the Ivy League: 2019-2023

How many hybrid and online-only enrollments does the Ivy league have now?


Here’s a summary:

Ivy League Multimodal Enrollment 2019-2023

Showing enrollments by modality for the past 4 academic years, including both undergraduate and graduate enrollment. (Source: EFFY-DIST Tables in IPEDS)

Below is more of a breakdown, looking closely at each Ivy’s enrollment mix over time:

Undergraduate Enrollment

2019-20 Ivy League UG

Undergraduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2020DIST)

2020-21 Ivy League UG

Undergraduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2021DIST)

2021-22 Ivy League UG

Undergraduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2022DIST)

2022-23 Ivy League UG

Undergraduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2023DIST)

text about Harvard Extension, Columbia SPS, Cornell maybe

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Graduate Enrollment

2019-20 Ivy League GRAD

Graduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2020DIST)

2020-21 Ivy League GRAD

Graduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2021DIST)

2021-22 Ivy League GRAD

Graduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2022DIST)

2022-23 Ivy League GRAD

Graduate Enrollments: Online, Hybrid, and In-Person (IPEDS: EFFY2023DIST)

Next we’ll look at how many hybrid and online-only enrollments the Ivy league reports now:

Harvard added 727 Online-Only enrollments:

Harvard 2019-20

Enrollments

Harvard 2022-23

Enrollments

On a percentage basis, Yale has reported the most significant shift into Online-Only and Hybrid enrollment:

Yale 2019-20

Enrollments

Yale 2022-23

Enrollments

Princeton is an outlier and reports zero online-only and hybrid enrollments to IPEDS’ EFFYDIST:

Princeton 2019-20

Enrollments

Princeton 2022-23

Enrollments

The data on Dartmouth is buggy: Dartmouth reported to IPEDS its move to hybrid a year earlier than everyone else, probably due to rounding (other Ivy’s rounded the 2019-20 year’s enrollment to ‘in-person’ but Dartmouth rounded it to ‘hybrid’). So Dartmouth’s 5,884 “hybrid” enrollments for 2019-20 are not representative of a pre-Covid trend… it’s Covid data.

But the 2023 data on 126 hybrid enrollments is interesting.

Dartmouth 2019-20

Enrollments

Dartmouth 2022-23

Enrollments

Penn has 3x’d its hybrid enrollments and added 1,708 Online-Only enrollments:

Penn 2019-2020

Enrollments

Penn 2022-23

Enrollments

Columbia has added 3,704 Hybrid & 1,106 Online-Only enrollments:

Columbia 2019-2020

Enrollments

Columbia 2022-23

Enrollments

Cornell has kept online-only enrollments small, but grown hybrid enrollments +1,578:

Cornell 2019-2020

Enrollments

Cornell 2022-23

Enrollments