Fall enrollment dropped by 7.7% this semester at Washington State University compared to last year.
According to a news release from WSU, the school’s fall 2022 system-wide enrollment is 27,539, a decrease of 2,305 students compared to last fall. It’s the third consecutive year total enrollment has dipped at WSU.
Enrollment data was presented to members of the WSU Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee last week.
School officials say there were some encouraging signs – the Pullman campus saw its number of first-year students increase for the first time in four years, from 3,305 last fall to 3,324 this semester.
Officials say nationally there are 1.3 million fewer college students today than before the pandemic. (Lewiston Tribune)
