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Despite Record Freshman Numbers, Enrollment Remains Flat At Wichita State

Nadya Faulx
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Students walks on the Wichita State University campus.

New numbers show enrollment at Wichita State University is relatively flat over last year.

Every year, the state’s 32 public universities and colleges take a census of students on the 20th day of class. According to the figures released by the Kansas Board of Regents, statewide enrollment throughout the system was up less than half a percent.

Fall enrollment at WSU is 14, 474 students--down 21 from last year. But the school says this year’s class of new freshman is the largest in its history, and WSU officials report growth in the number of first-generation undergraduates and under-represented minority students.

Overall, enrollment decreased at 4 of Kansas’ 6 state universities. Technical colleges saw the biggest increase in students: They’re up more than 6 percent over last year.

Based on current numbers, the Board of Regents projects systemwide enrollment this academic year will remain flat.

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Nadya Faulx is KMUW's Digital News Editor and Reporter, which means she splits her time between working on-air and working online, managing news on KMUW.org, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She joined KMUW in 2015 after working for a newspaper in western North Dakota. Before that she was a diversity intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.