Due to economic, financial crisis of 2008 many people believed that the world was too uncertain to bring in a child, they were awestruck by how suddenly the strongest economy in the world could collapse and believed that it would be hard to bring in a child in this world amidst such uncertainty. So in the following three years from 2008 to 2011, there was a significant decline in birth rate, which leads us to forecast that by the time children will reach a college-going age in 2026 there will be a decline in students or college goers than there are today.
This declining birth rate could mean different things in different contexts and different states of the US. However, one thing is for sure; colleges are going to be fighting among the few students that will be present at that time. The population is predicted to be dropping more and more in the near future, and this could be a good thing for future students as the market for colleges and universities is going to be small. This will lead to better education at the average for students in 2026 than it is right now.