Washington State University continues to attract strong enrollments, reporting a record spring semester number of 24,340 students on its four campuses.
The official spring figures, based on enrollments on the 10th day of classes of the semester, show an increase of 530 students or 2.2 percent over spring 2009 numbers.
The university’s fastest-growing campus continues to be WSU Tri-Cities, which enrolled 1,508 students, an increase of 160 or 11.9 percent over last spring. Enrollment at WSU Vancouver is 2,892, up 105 students or 3.8 percent over spring 2009.
The Pullman and Spokane campuses, which are considered one campus for state enrollment reporting purposes, showed an overall increase of 1.3 percent or 265 students over spring 2009. The Pullman campus enrollment is 18,629 students and WSU Spokane has 1,311 enrolled for spring.
Enrollment as measured by full-time equivalent students showed even a larger rate of increase university-wide, rising to 23,229, up 3.1 percent over last spring. The number of graduate students, who are included in the overall enrollment numbers, is up 192 from last spring.
