By the numbers of enrollment breakdown

Courtesy of the Iowa State News Service. 

Iowa State’s student numbers set records in the following categories this fall:

• Record undergraduate enrollment of 30,034, an increase of 1,141 students from last fall’s record of 28,893.
• Record graduate enrollment of 5,096, an increase of 146 students from the fall 2014 record of 4,950.
• Record international student enrollment of 4,041, an increase of 13 students from last fall’s record of 4,028.
• Record diversity. Total U.S. multicultural and international enrollment is 8,366, or 23.24 percent of the student body. (The previous record set in fall 2014 was 8,093, or 23.3 percent of the student body.)
• U.S. multicultural enrollment is 4,325 (12 percent of total enrollment), a new record and an increase over last fall’s 4,065 students.
• Record U.S. multicultural enrollment among new freshmen: 888 students, up from last year’s record of 802. Multicultural students represent 14.3 percent of new freshmen at Iowa State.
• Record total Iowa resident enrollment of 21,064, up 804 students from last fall.
• Record Iowa resident undergraduate enrollment of 19,285, up 807 from last year’s record of 18,478.
• Record total U.S. nonresident enrollment of 10,609, up 414 students from last year’s record of 10,195 students.
• Record U.S. nonresident undergraduate enrollment of 8,611, up 398 students from last year’s record of 8,213.
• Record U.S. nonresident new freshman enrollment of 2,369, up 129 students from last year’s record of 2,240 students.