Austin Chamber Of Commerce - Blog: Chamber Connects Students To College & Careers

Press release from the Austin Chamber of Commerce - Blog:

08/26/2021

Did you know that approximately 60% of jobs available in the Austin MSA require some level of postsecondary education? Typically, about 90% of all 13,000 Central Texas high school graduates indicate they plan to seek some form of postsecondary enrollment, but only about 63% actually enroll in college.

Nationally, research shows that between 10-40% of students planning to attend college encounter enrollment barriers that impact low-income or first-generation student enrollments. This process has been defined as “summer melt.”

This press release was produced by the Austin Chamber of Commerce - Blog. The views expressed here are the author’s own.