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Students walk and sit outside on Quad lawn of University of Illinois college campus in Urbana Champaign, Ill., on April 17, 2016. Leigh Trail/Shutterstock
The United States continues to see a dramatic decline in the number of students attending college, with 1 million fewer students now enrolled since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans’ perception of higher education has also changed considerably.