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Free Community College Helps Reverse Massachusetts Enrollment Decline
Headline from Governing
State universities are seeing their first enrollment increase since 2013, fueled in part by a surge in transfer students from community colleges benefiting from tuition-free policies.
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Community colleges, with their enrollment buoyed by tuition-free policies in recent years, "remain the largest source of new transfers at the state universities," said Mario Delci, associate commissioner for research and planning.
State universities are seeing their first enrollment increase since 2013, fueled in part by a surge in transfer students from community colleges benefiting from tuition-free policies.
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Free Community College Helps Reverse Massachusetts Enrollment Decline | Since Then
