Fall enrollment record shattered
September 5, 2012
The Iowa State University news service has officially listed the number of enrolled students for the fall semester to be 31,040.
This is the largest fall enrollment Iowa State has ever seen.
There are 5,366 new freshmen, with 3,251 of incoming freshmen being residents from the State of Iowa. Of the 31,040 members of the student body 25,553 students are undergraduates with 3,510 of those undergraduates being international students and 1,111 students transferring from community colleges.
In the fall of 2011, the official undergraduate student enrollment was 29,887 with 1,766 faculty members.
President Steven Leath said in an interview with the Daily in June that he expects student enrollment to grow for at least one more year and then begin to “level out” in the years to follow.
The Iowa State Admissions office has already begun to recruit and admit students for the 2013-2014 school year.
The University of Iowa has also reported a record enrollment with 31,498 students, with 4,470 of those being first-year freshmen.