{"id":97700,"date":"2026-01-07T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97700"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:24:07","slug":"what-3-credit-ratings-agencies-forecast-for-higher-ed-in-2026-unglesbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/01\/07\/what-3-credit-ratings-agencies-forecast-for-higher-ed-in-2026-unglesbee\/","title":{"rendered":"What 3 credit ratings agencies forecast for higher ed in 2026 [Unglesbee]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/ratings-agencies-higher-ed-finance-2026-outlooks-moodys-sp-fitch-federal-policy\/808596\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What 3 credit ratings agencies forecast for higher ed in 2026<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee<br \/>\n<em>Fitch Ratings, S&amp;P Global and Moody\u2019s Ratings all predicted a tough year ahead, pointing to deteriorating financial conditions and heightened uncertainty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Fitch Ratings labeled its higher ed financial outlook for 2026 as \u201cdeteriorating\u201d while Moody\u2019s Ratings described an \u201cincreasingly difficult and shifting operating environment for colleges and universities.\u201d Similarly, S&amp;P Global Ratings said it expects\u201cmounting operating pressures and uncertainty\u201d ahead for the sector\u2019s nonprofit institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Analysts cited additional disruption and belt-tightening ahead in the new year, from predicted\u00a0demographic declines\u00a0to pressures on\u00a0international enrollment\u00a0to uncertainties about how Republicans\u2019\u00a0big spending bill\u00a0passed this summer will impact demand for college.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Below are the various takes on higher ed in 2026 by Moody\u2019s, Fitch and S&amp;P Global Ratings:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What 3 credit ratings agencies forecast for higher ed in 2026\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee Fitch Ratings, S&amp;P Global and Moody\u2019s Ratings all predicted a tough year ahead, pointing to deteriorating financial conditions and heightened uncertainty. Fitch Ratings labeled its higher ed financial outlook for 2026 as \u201cdeteriorating\u201d while Moody\u2019s Ratings described an \u201cincreasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,86,209,115,302,57,36,35,3,7,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97701,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97700\/revisions\/97701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}