Discover the latest insights on today’s first-year college students in the new report, Understanding the Entering Class of 2024: Key Insights from The CIRP Freshman Survey 2024, released jointly by the American Council on Education (ACE) and UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). Based on responses from over 24,000 students across 55 institutions, the report highlights incoming students’ growing diversity, financial pressures, academic confidence, and mental health challenges. These findings provide an evidence-based roadmap for higher education leaders for institutional policy in our fraught political landscape.
