Dive Brief:

• Writing for The Atlantic, Jordan Weissmann takes issue with a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined "How the College Bubble Will Pop" by saying that there is no bubble.
• According to Weissmann, college costs are going up and return on investment is going down, so students are staying away; but Weissmann says the enrollment declines were actually confined to for-profit schools and community colleges.
• Enrollment has risen at private non-profit schools and public four-year schools saw a small dip before bouncing back, Weissmann says.

Dive Insight:

The original op-ed makes a point that could reshape the higher education landscape: The rising enrollment of foreign students means that a decline in births in the mid-1990s is being offset. Those foreign students could help not just fill the classrooms, but balance the books: They often pay more to colleges and universities than American students.