YSU Enrollment Down Slightly, Grad Student Numbers Up
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Spring semester enrollment at Youngstown State University totals 12,823, a 1.1% decrease from a year ago. Meanwhile, graduate student numbers increased 2.8 percent, with 1,150 grad students enrolled, YSU reports.
Gary Swegan, YSU’s new associate vice president for enrollment planning, sees a positive side to the numbers.
“To start out, we were down 3.13% in the fall, and spring typically follows fall very closely, so we might have anticipated another 3% drop,” Swegan said. “That didn’t happen. We’re down just 1.1%. In fact, we enrolled a slightly larger group than we planned for in our budget for this semester. We hit our target, plus a little more.”
Growth in the graduate student population on campus helped to level off the enrollment numbers this semester, he added.
Officials also believe the university is beginning to realize some benefits from its conditional admission policy, Swegan said, including better continuation rates among current students.
Swegan joined YSU in November as its chief enrollment officer.
SOURCE: YSU News Center
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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