December 14, 2020 |
Just over 700 new students joined CALS this fall, including 541 new undergraduates and 165 new graduate students. 460 are new freshmen.
The Sixth Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 2,892 undergraduate students this fall, down from a peak of 3,653 undergraduates in 2014. Of the current undergraduate total, 64 percent are women and 36 percent are men. Among our 913 graduate students, 58 percent are women and 42 percent are men.
Undergraduate enrollment at CALS has been dropping slightly in recent years. During the first COVID enrollment year, CALS lost five percent of our undergraduates (3,058 in Fall 2019 to 2,892 in Fall 2020). Graduate student numbers have been increasing slightly since their low of 829 graduate students in 2016 and this year saw a 3.5 percent increase, equal to graduate enrollments in 2012.
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