Key dates and expected on-campus attendance for the USA’s 50 largest colleges

Spring semester 2021 college attendance won't look like Spring 2020 or even Spring 2019. It's critical companies that sell to young people access verified intelligence on each university’s COVID volume of on-campus full time students and all the key dates to ensure their demand forecasts are accurate.
With almost every campus implementing their own pandemic policy impacting the amount of students on-campus, businesses can no longer rely on the usual volume of young people turning up to study in spring as they did in 2019 and before. That’s why we’ve published this report of impactful details about the USA’s largest 50 colleges in Spring and Summer 2021.
PredictHQ’s Academic Events category tracks the key dates of every US college with more than 5,000 students. Because there are no standard dates for tertiary educations across the USA, or even year structures with some having semesters and some trimester, previously companies would have to track each relevant university manually. We are the only centralized source of this data, and it is verified, standardized and forecast quality.
Yet key dates and pandemic policies continue to evolve rapidly. For example, in December, an increasing volume of institutions were cancelling Spring Break, which often caused semester start and end dates to shift by a week or more.
Companies use our Academic Events category to:
Ensure they have the right volume of staff on to meet demand. During the pandemic, this has often meant scheduling fewer staff due to lower demand as students stay home, saving these substantial money.
Calibrating inventory, such as ingredients for quick-serve retail chains, to minimize waste while ensuring customers can still rely on their company to provide their favorite order. This avoids losing customer loyalty, wastage and having to expensively ship excess inventory or to fill gaps.
You can access the key Spring semester dates and expected student populations for the 50 largest colleges in the US in this report compiled in early December with details on:
Check out the report by downloading it here. It also covers how to use this demand intelligence in forecasting, and our team would love to assist you to make the most of our Academic Events category.
Colleges covered in the report:
1. Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
2. The University of Texas at Austin
3. Tarrant County College District
4. The Ohio State University - Columbus Campus
5. Texas A&M University - College Station Campus
6. Pennsylvania State University
7. University of Central Florida
8. Indiana University - Bloomington
9. Purdue University - Main Campus
10. University of Houston
11. Michigan State University
12. The University of Arizona
13. Temple University
14. University of North Texas - Denton
15. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
16. University of Florida
17. Mt. San Antonio College
18. University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
19. Rutgers University - New Brunswick Campus
20. Florida State University
21. University of Wisconsin-Madison
22. University of California - Los Angeles
23. The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
24. University of California,Berkeley
25. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
26. California State University - Fullerton Campus
27. University of Washington - Seattle Campus
28. University of California - Davis
29. University of California - San Diego
30. Brigham Young University
31. University of California - Irvine
32. California State University, Northridge
33. San Diego State University
34. The University of Alabama
35. Texas Tech University
36. California State University Long Beach
37. University of Georgia
38. University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
39. The University of Texas - Arlington Campus
40. University of Maryland
41. Iowa State University
42. Louisiana State University and
Agricultural & Mechanical College
43. Utah Valley University
44. University of Cincinnati - Clifton Campus
45. University of South Carolina Columbia
46. University of Colorado - Boulder Campus
47. San Jose State University
48. Virginia Commonwealth University - Monroe Park Campus
49. Texas State University - San Marcos Campus
50. University of South Florida - Tampa Campus