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How dual enrollment programs can help
students save money, jump-start career plans,
and bank college credits at the same time.
It’s just what you do,
right? After graduating
from high school, you
pack yourself up and go off
to college, taking one big
owa whatever the future holds
fo But this traditional model
raig school to college is starting
to higher costs of tuition, de-
clining numbers of college-
age kids overall, and weaker
r — especially among males —
k reduce the numbers of kids
on college campuses. And
COVID showed everyone how
ning con can take place online, instead
iri dents to be sharing the same
real-world classroom space.
One of the solutions to
this brew of challenges can
be to reverse the old, familiar
go Instead of kids going off to
college after finishing high
school, educators are work-
ing to bring college into the
f ing the two formerly distinct
kinds of learning into one,
more interesting, cost-effec-
e f education. This ideal lies at
the heart of “dual enroll-
a that more and more colleges
nd rating on every year. Student
participation increased by al-
most 9 percent in 2023 alone.
HOW IT WORKS
Also called “dual credit” or
“concurrent enrollment,”
dual enrollment programs offer high school students
t a ha can count for both high
school and college credit at
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the same time. These classes
can be taught by college in-
structors or high school
teachers with advanced
c, de a ’ li -
tin There are lots of excellent
reasons for students to seek
out dual enrollment pro-
grams. Costs for classes are
often much lower than what
college credits cost, helping
families ultimately save
money on tuition. And get-