For third year in a row, college students report lower rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts

Medical Xpress October 12, 2025
University of California, Los Angeles

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 and 9,000-plus faculty and staff members from 22 institutions—the second year of surveying campus employees.

“While overall access to mental health services seems to be similar to previous years, the good news is that students are accessing an increasingly diverse array...

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