Enrollment at the company's flagship school, which offers associate's, bachelor's and graduate degrees, tumbled to 319, 700 in the latest quarter from highs of nearly a half-million students in 2010.
Increasing the retention of STEM majors to just 50 percent would generate approximately three-quarters of the targeted 1 million additional STEM graduates over the next decade - adding approximately 75, 000 more STEM graduates with bachelor or associate degrees each year.