Colleges take enrollment – and financial – hit as pandemic grinds on | The Daily Gazette
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The SUNY Schenectady campus in Schenectady is pictured on Wednesday.
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Enrollments at SUNY Schenectady and Fulton-Montgomery County Community College dropped 15 percent this fall. Union and Skidmore college lost out on millions of dollars of room and board revenue.
And The College of Saint Rose on Tuesday night announced the elimination of 25 academic programs, including art and music degrees, a mathematics program and chemistry degree, and a handful of education graduate degrees.
“Many of the programs have declining or historically low enrollment,” the college wrote in a release announcing the cuts. “Other degrees or certificate programs were eliminated because the cost to maintain them was higher than the revenue generated by enrollment.”