Iowa State’s enrollment prediction was spot-on. The university’s fall 2015 enrollment of 36,001 is the largest in school history, an increase of nearly 3.7 percent (1,269 students) over the previous record of 34,732 in fall 2014.
It’s the seventh year of record enrollment and the ninth consecutive year of growth at Iowa State. In the last decade, overall enrollment at Iowa State has grown 40 percent. The student body represents every Iowa county, every U.S. state and 118 countries.
This fall, the College of Engineering has an enrollment of 9,312 total students, surpassing last year’s record enrollment of 8,789.
Undergraduate enrollment of 7,949 is up from 7,523 last year, and graduate enrollment of 1,363 is up from 1,266. Engineering continues to be the largest college on campus.