“College students’ reports of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts have continued to move in a positive direction, the third year in a row of such improvements since 2022, researchers have found.
The 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Study , conducted annually by researchers from UCLA, the University of Michigan, Boston University in Massachusetts, and Wayne State University in Michigan, under the leadership of the Healthy Minds Network based at Michigan, received responses from more than 84,000 students from 135 colleges and universities…
Key findings for students demonstrating improvement over time include:
- Moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms dropped from 44% in 2022 to 37% in 2025, while reports of severe depression decreased from 23% to 18%.
- Moderate-to-severe anxiety symptoms fell from 37% in 2022 to 32% in 2025.
- Students who seriously considered suicide in the past year dropped from 15% in 2022 to 11% in 2025.
- Students reporting high levels of loneliness decreased from 58% in 2022 to 52% in 2025.”
From UCLA Newsroom.
