Spring enrollment officially a record
January 30, 2015
Iowa State has set yet another enrollment record. The spring semester enrolled 32,794 students, a campus-wide total of 1,498 more than were enrolled in the spring of 2014.
There are 1,938 fewer students enrolled for spring semester than were enrolled in fall of 2014. School officials said they expected around 2,000 fewer students before the official numbers were tabulated Jan. 27.
Graduate students gained 213 students from spring 2014 to spring 2015, while undergraduate numbers increased by 1,270.
Of the individual colleges, the College of Engineering gained 454 students, raising the enrollment of the university’s largest college to over 8,000 students.
The College of Human Sciences gained 302 students, raising the college’s enrollment just over 6 percent from spring 2014, the largest percentage increase of any college that enrolls undergraduates.
The College of Veterinary Medicine raised enrollment 12 percent, gaining 18 students.