California State University, Stanislaus enrollment has once again reached an all-time high for freshmen, transfer, and graduate students.
Official enrollment data for the fall 2006 semester shows CSU Stanislaus numbers jumped 3% to 8,374 students, including a record-high 3.5% jump to 6,314 students who are classified as “full-time equivalent.”
As CSU Stanislaus continues to build its reputation for offering a high quality education, all indications are that students are taking notice when it comes to choosing a college. In addition to an 8.6% increase in freshmen students to 947, CSU Stanislaus welcomed its largest ever number of transfer students (989) and expanded its graduate school numbers by 21%.
“Our growing enrollment indicates that California State University, Stanislaus is meeting the higher education needs of many students from all over the state,” CSU Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani said. “Our goal is to do whatever it takes to improve the low college-going rates of students in the Central Valley.”
Of the freshman class that has grown by 8.6% this year and 61% over the past five years, 75 percent come from Stanislaus (428), Merced (150), and San Joaquin (133) counties. Freshmen students from San Joaquin County increased 40%. As more freshmen enrolled at the University, The Village on-campus residential complex was at capacity for the first time, with all 650 beds occupied.
Seventy percent of the University’s new transfer students come from regional community colleges – Modesto (348), San Joaquin Delta (175), Merced (144), and Columbia (19).
Four new colleges were formed at CSU Stanislaus this fall and all met their initial enrollment target numbers. Created from the former College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences were the Colleges of Art, Human and Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. The University’s other two colleges are Business Administration and Education, home to two of the most popular majors – Business and Liberal Studies (Teacher Education). Nursing, Criminal Justice, Biological Sciences, and Psychology are the other majors that attracted the largest numbers of freshmen and transfer students this year.
“The deans and faculty in our six colleges have done an admirable job accommodating the increased enrollment demand in their respective departments,” President Shirvani said.
A student population that reflects the region’s diverse population continues to be an attribute of CSU Stanislaus, with 38.5% of the freshman class of Hispanic ethnicity and 11% classified as Asian. That trend is continuing as 27.7% of students overall are Latino (2,317), maintaining the University’s official federal designation as an Hispanic-serving institution.
Official enrollment data for the fall 2006 semester shows CSU Stanislaus numbers jumped 3% to 8,374 students, including a record-high 3.5% jump to 6,314 students who are classified as “full-time equivalent.”
As CSU Stanislaus continues to build its reputation for offering a high quality education, all indications are that students are taking notice when it comes to choosing a college. In addition to an 8.6% increase in freshmen students to 947, CSU Stanislaus welcomed its largest ever number of transfer students (989) and expanded its graduate school numbers by 21%.
“Our growing enrollment indicates that California State University, Stanislaus is meeting the higher education needs of many students from all over the state,” CSU Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani said. “Our goal is to do whatever it takes to improve the low college-going rates of students in the Central Valley.”
Of the freshman class that has grown by 8.6% this year and 61% over the past five years, 75 percent come from Stanislaus (428), Merced (150), and San Joaquin (133) counties. Freshmen students from San Joaquin County increased 40%. As more freshmen enrolled at the University, The Village on-campus residential complex was at capacity for the first time, with all 650 beds occupied.
Seventy percent of the University’s new transfer students come from regional community colleges – Modesto (348), San Joaquin Delta (175), Merced (144), and Columbia (19).
Four new colleges were formed at CSU Stanislaus this fall and all met their initial enrollment target numbers. Created from the former College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences were the Colleges of Art, Human and Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. The University’s other two colleges are Business Administration and Education, home to two of the most popular majors – Business and Liberal Studies (Teacher Education). Nursing, Criminal Justice, Biological Sciences, and Psychology are the other majors that attracted the largest numbers of freshmen and transfer students this year.
“The deans and faculty in our six colleges have done an admirable job accommodating the increased enrollment demand in their respective departments,” President Shirvani said.
A student population that reflects the region’s diverse population continues to be an attribute of CSU Stanislaus, with 38.5% of the freshman class of Hispanic ethnicity and 11% classified as Asian. That trend is continuing as 27.7% of students overall are Latino (2,317), maintaining the University’s official federal designation as an Hispanic-serving institution.