9-12-96
Contacts:
Thomas Thielen, Student Affairs, (515) 294-4420
John Anderson, University Relations, (515) 294-6136
FALL ENROLLMENT IS UP AT IOWA STATE
AMES, Iowa -- Enrollment at Iowa State University for the fall semester is up 226 or nearly 1 percent compared to fall semester 1995. A total of 24,899 students have enrolled for the current semester, compared to 24,673 last year. The increase ends a three-year period of slight enrollment declines at ISU.
"We feel that this semester's strong enrollment signals a turnaround," said Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Thielen. "We are well on our way to achieving our goal of stabilizing our enrollment at approximately 25,000 students."
The 1996 enrollment figure includes 20,503 undergraduate students, 160 more than last year, and 4,396 graduate students, 66 more than last year.
Thielen said that efforts to bolster the number of new incoming students paid off in this semester's enrollment figures. "One of our focuses was on new students coming to Iowa State right out of high school and we are pleased that we have been successful in this area," Thielen said.
A breakdown of each college's enrollment comparing last year's fall enrollment to this year's fall enrollment follows.
UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE
1995 1996 1995 1996
Agriculture 2,691 2,722 610 649
Business 2,640 2,822 213 218
Design 1,634 1,567 137 136
Education 1,650 1,726 455 444
Engineering 4,164 4,115 744 746
Family & 1,129 1,177 229 239
Consumer Sciences
Liberal Arts 6,030 5,971 1,246 1,208
& Sciences
Inter-disciplinary 584 645
Veterinary 405 403 112 111
Medicine
TOTAL 20,343 20,503 4,330 4,396
DIFFERENCE +160 +66
TOTALS
1995 24,673
1996 24,899
DIFFERENCE +226
Diana Pounds, University Relations, dpounds@iastate.edu
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