The Kansas Board of Regents released its enrollment figures today, which show an increase of 3,237 students at the state's 32 public universities, technical colleges and community colleges.
This represents a 1.8% systemwide increase for the 2010 fall academic semester over the 2009 fall academic semester. The systemwide enrollment of 187,398 is reported as of the 20th day of classes.
Emporia State University had 4,914 resident students and 1,348 non-resident students, for a total of 6,262 students. That number is a decrease of 52 students, or 0.8 percent of its enrollment from Fall 2009.
Flint Hills Technical College saw an enrollment increase of 74 students, or 12.2 percent of its enrollment. This year FHTC had 679 students.
For more on this story, check Friday's edition of The Emporia Gazette.
snow (anonymous) says...
Tech is up because people want to learn something that will land them a job. ESU needs to look at the computer-technical side of things, as I think a lot of their computer science types will be going elsewhere, so they can skip the literature classes and get job skills.
September 23, 2010 at 3:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
irishemporia (anonymous) says...
Washburn...........+7.3%
Fort Hays State...+5.1%
Kansas State.......unchanged
Wichita Statae.....-0.1%
Emporia State......-0.8%
Kansas................-1.8%
Pitt State.............-2.0%
http://www.kansasregents.org/resource...
September 23, 2010 at 4:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
According to the figures provided by irishemporia it appears it's not so much a matter of what the Regents schools are doing right. It's a matter of what Washburn and Fort Hays State or doing right.
September 23, 2010 at 5:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
I'm not sure I agree snow. Yes the Tech School grads will find tech jobs. But the ones that have the tech education plus the literature classes will eventually be their bosses. A college degree is about a lot of things more than just getting a job.
I only worked in my degree area for a few years after college. But I never one time regretted getting the degree, and the college education has benefited me every day of my life.
September 23, 2010 at 5:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
bball71 (anonymous) says...
Was the decline at ESU online or or on campus ?
September 23, 2010 at 8:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Steve_Corbin (anonymous) says...
bball,
If you look at all the empty rentals, I would guess on campus figures.
It wasn't stated in the article, maybe you can find it out on the internet;>)
September 24, 2010 at 10:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )