Record enrollment numbers

Tiffany Herring/Iowa State Daily

President Steven Leath announced a 4.5 percent rise in enrollment on Sept. 10. For the 2014-2015 school year, Iowa State had its largest-ever enrollment of 34,732 students. The large enrollment number has led to overcrowding in places from dining halls to elevators.

Danielle Ferguson

ISU President Steven Leath announced the official fall 2014 enrollment on Sept. 10 to be 34,732 students. Here is more of a breakdown of how that number is made.

Breakdown by college:

Agriculture and Life Sciences: 5,205

Business: 4,082

Design: 1,998

Engineering: 8,789

Human Sciences: 5,093

Liberal Arts and Sciences: 8,126

Veterinary Medicine: 592 professional; 140 graduate

Interdepartmental Units and Graduate Undeclared: 410

Post-doctorates: 297

TOTAL ENROLLMENT: 34,732

Record setting numbers this fall:

Undergraduate enrollment: 28,893, an increase of 1,234 students from last fall’s record of 27,659.

Graduate enrollment: 4,950, an increase of 240 students from fall 2013

Professional (veterinary medicine) enrollment: 592, an increase of six students from fall 2013 (Veterinary medicine enrollment is controlled.)

International student enrollment: 3,980, an increase of 183 students from last fall’s record of 3,797. The overall number also reflects a record in the number of international undergraduates: 2,202.

Diversity. Total U.S. multicultural and international enrollment is 8,045 – 23.16 percent of the student body. The previous record set in fall 2013 was 7,486 – 22.52 percent of the student body.

U.S. multicultural enrollment: 4,065 – 11.7 percent of total enrollment, an increase over last fall’s 3,689 students.

U.S. multicultural enrollment among new freshmen: 802 students, up from last year’s record of 782. Multicultural students represent 13.3 percent of new freshmen at Iowa State.

Total Iowa resident enrollment: 20,260, up 410 students from last fall.

Iowa resident undergraduate enrollment of 18,478, up 469 from last year’s record of 18,009.

Nonresident new freshman enrollment: 2,240, up 52 students from last year’s record of 2,188 students.

*numbers from ISU News Service.