Spring enrollment is third highest on record

There are 33,345 students enrolled at Iowa State this spring, 763 fewer than the record-setting spring semester 2017 and 314 fewer than spring 2016. The spring student count was taken on Jan. 22.

Undergraduate enrollment is down 678 students and graduate enrollment is down 106 students from a year ago. There are 14 more post doctoral researchers on campus this spring than a year ago. These specific student populations also are larger this spring than last:

• Business undergraduate students, up 2.3 percent (100 students)
• Engineering graduate students, up 3.4 percent (45 students)
• Design graduate students, up 20.5 percent (32 students)

Iowa State had a record number of December graduates last month, 2,349. Fall graduations are a key variable in the difference between fall and spring enrollments. Last September, Iowa State enrolled 36,321 students.

Spring enrollment by college