Record enrollment numbers
September 10, 2014
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.