Census Bureau: Enrollment Dropped in 2013

College enrollments dropped for the second straight year in 2013, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. But those drops are but a fraction of the large gains that came first. Enrollments fell by nearly half a million -- 460,000 -- between 2012 and 2013. That brought the two-year decline to 930,000, which was larger than enrollment drop before the recent recession. But enrollments grew substantially -- by 3.2 million -- as the economic downturn hit. Between 2006 and 2011, enrollment grew by 3.2 million. In the last year analyzed (2012 to 2013), community colleges saw the largest enrollment drops (10 percent), while four-year institutions saw a very small increase.