Question

Which statement is true about becoming a student in midlife?

A. Most adult learners are middle-aged men.
B. Life transitions often trigger a return to college in midlife.
C. The sharpest rise in adult college enrollment is among 25- to 30-year-olds.
D. In U.S. colleges, students over age 25 make up about 15 percent of total enrollment.

Answer 1

Answer: B. Life transitions often trigger a return to college in midlife.

Step-by-step explanation:

Midlife adults are prone to undergo significant family transitions including divorce, widowhood, empty nest transition and competing demands from aging parents and their young adult offspring.

Those life transitions often work as turning points, increasing people´s inclination to start college or going back to finish earning a college degree, to establish a new life-course path.