Monday, September 18, 2017

Enrollment down by five percent - Cassie Buchman, Daily Eastern

Eastern’s total enrollment has gone down from 7,415 in fall 2016 to 7,030 in fall 2017, making for a five percent decrease from last year’s numbers. This is the university’s lowest fall-to-fall headcount decline in six years. “That means (enrollment has) gone down every year in the last six years…we’re not satisfied with that,” said Eastern President David Glassman. “We see that as now we’re getting to that plateau and we can turn that around and start building higher and higher enrollments.” The total number of first-time freshman at the university is 634, with 1,178 transfer, 383 first-time graduate, 179 returning and 4,656 continuing students. https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/2017/09/10/enrollment-down-by-five-percent/