Event2010
Peak of for-profit online enrollment
By around 2010, for-profit institutions accounted for a large majority of students enrolled in fully online degree programs in the United States, according to contemporary estimates.
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- 2010
Online enrollment patterns became less concentrated between Fall 2012 and Fall 2018 due to major enrollment declines of large for-profit providers.
In particular, the percentage of students who took distance education courses exclusively was highest at private for-profit 4-year institutions (71 percent).
Enrollment at for-profit colleges climbed 24 percent at the height of the recession, according to an analysis by BMO Capital Markets.
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