Charting UL Enrollment since 1901

[DestinCajun]

Now, let's go get that USN&WR Tier 1 ranking.

[NewsCopy]

  An increase in summer enrollment at the University of Louisiana reflects the university’s efforts to provide additional courses, said Dr. DeWayne Bowie, UL’s vice president for enrollment management and registrar.

“ More and more, students are enrolling in summer school and intersessions so they can more quickly make progress in earning their degrees,” Bowie said.

Total enrollment for the Summer 2010 semester is 5,142, an increase of 4.8 percent over last year’s total of 4,908. The largest increase was in undergraduate continuing students — those who also attended the university last semester.

“ After the summer course schedule was published, the university invited all students enrolled in spring 2010 semester to complete a survey designed to better advise us about additional courses they would like to see offered during the summer 2010 session,” Bowie said. Seven-hundred forty-six students completed the survey. In response to students’ feedback, 12 courses, in a variety of areas, were added.

“ This was the first time we took that approach. By providing all students the opportunity to be included in the course-offering process we were better able to meet their needs.”

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[Boomer]

I heard that we really had a large Freshman class as per stories of additional orientation sessions----Anybody up on the count?????

[BeauCajun]

Check back in mid-September. That's when the official numbers come out. I think it's the 10th day of classes. I think the numbers will be up.

[CAJUN_LXA685]

My wife works in the Student affairs office with the Sorority's and Fraternity's, and she said the count was just over 3,000 new freshmen ( and freshwomen for the PC sensitive people) This is up 750 or so from last year.

One complaint was that they didn't have enough classes open for all the students during orientations. We want more students we need offer more classes to accomidate the growing numbers!!

[BeauCajun]

_ My wife works in the Student affairs office with the Sorority's and Fraternity's, and she said the count was just over 3,000 new freshmen ( and freshwomen for the PC sensitive people) This is up 750 or so from last year.

One complaint was that they didn't have enough classes open for all the students during orientations. We want more students we need offer more classes to accomidate the growing numbers!! _

One of the pitfalls of state budget cuts. You'll see more of that in the future along with larger classrooms.

[CajunFan89]

I think it is only up about 450-550 from last year ( i think the numbers for last fall were around 2600) but still at least a 15-20% increase in enrollment. the problem with the classes is this, to offer more classes to incoming freshman you would have to take instructors away from the higher level courses (300 & 400) to accommodate this. this in turn could severely affect the degree completion and graduation rates of the university. Having our current allotment of freshman classes filled will not adversely affect our grad rates directly but if those students continue to not be able to enroll in the lower level classes in successive semesters then it will. If we adjust gradually( and by gradually i mean meet at least 30-50% of the excess in demand from this semester by enrollment in next semester with the same number of faculty) to meet the demand for such classes we will be able to obtain a good balance of degree progression without stressing the already thin budget. By the way, we're going to go through another mid-year budget cut because the $19 million we were getting as our cut from the stimulus is gone and it isn't getting renewed.

[ULvictory]

_ I heard that we really had a large Freshman class as per stories of additional orientation sessions----Anybody up on the count????? _

Enrollment was 16,464 last year 2009 and if the numbers hold with an additional 700 plus freshmen then I assume we will be at approx 16,800-17,000!

[Boomer]

Was there a final count on this Fall's enrollment and that of the other state schools????

[NewsCopy]

  Enrollment at UL is at its highest since the university ended open enrollment in 1999, a UL vice president said Tuesday.

That excludes a brief enrollment spike in 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina. An official fall 2010 14th-day enrollment count puts 16,763 students on UL's campus, a 2.5 percent increase from fall 2009's enrollment of 16,361, Vice President for Enrollment Management DeWayne Bowie said.

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Tina Marie Macias
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[keithj]

Was there a final count on this Fall's enrollment and that of the other state schools????

Jeeze, Boomer, have you got some pull or what. You ask a question on RP and you get a newspaper article written for you the next day. You should ask more questions!

[Boomer]

Well I am still wondering about the other schools' numbers---saw where N'Western was at a plus 2!!!! Along with the drawings of the new stadia we need to have sketches of the new campus designs for the "MALL"/"Village" look that will be incorporated with the new dorms and student union!!!!!!