After nearly a decade of declining undergraduate enrollment—initially driven by expected demographic shifts in the state and later worsened by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic—the Massachusetts public higher education system is now experiencing its second consecutive fall term of growth. This increase is primarily fueled by community college enrollment increases following the continued implementation and expansion of free community college in the Commonwealth.

While summary data on enrollment and awards conferred have long been available on DHE’s website, these new resources represent a new level of access to disaggregated data as well as visualization of trends

PMRS provides a comprehensive examination of the performance of each of Massachusetts’ community colleges and state universities on a set of key indicators focused on Access & Affordability, Student Success & Completion, Workforce Alignment and Fiscal Stewardship