The fall enrollment numbers at the three state universities in Iowa all show a drop compared to last year. Iowa State University’s Laura Doering says they saw a drop of one-thousand-and one students.
The school had seen eight years of record enrollments before a decline last fall of 339 students. Doering, who is the associate vice president of enrollment management says they are doing a year-long study of the situation.
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Doering says even with the drop, it is still the fourth largest fall enrollment for the Ames campus.
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The Board of Regents change the way numbers are reported this year — taking out postdoctoral students. With that change, the University of Iowa reports a drop-in enrollment of 616 to 32-thousand-948. The University or Northern Iowa reported a drop of 695 students this fall compared to last year.