According to Zellmer, Inch said Minnesota State’s enrollment has dropped 10% in the last decade, contributing to a $3 million budget deficit. Inch also said the deficit is among the lowest among state universities in Minnesota. According to her, “We’ve been in a deficit for years. We are not nearly in as bad of a deficit as the other state universities, we have the smallest deficit. It basically just means that our enrollment went down this year. Mankato is in the best situation out of all of them. So that just means tightening of budgets.”
