Enrollment

[WeRise225]

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/education/2025/09/11/university-of-akron-sees-higher-undergraduate-graduate-enrollment/86093682007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z112727p000050c000050e009300v112727b0054xxd005465&gca-ft=39&gca-ds=sophi

 

This is promising, would love that number to keep creeping up closer to 20k

[ZippyRulz]

From UA website:

 

https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/the-university-of-akron-says-yes-to-growth?fbclid=IwdGRzaAM-VcJjbGNrAz5Vk2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeIx0pkkTUKaPs5Nc8duV6b_bkjex5lBbKCUp9UOjKywK7ZAGyJ6ZvXAmgkwA_aem_6aR8uNsYWSU-JybqVcIkyA

Edited September 22, 2025 by ZippyRulz

[GP1]

7 hours ago, ZippyRulz said:

From UA website:

 

https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/the-university-of-akron-says-yes-to-growth?fbclid=IwdGRzaAM-VcJjbGNrAz5Vk2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeIx0pkkTUKaPs5Nc8duV6b_bkjex5lBbKCUp9UOjKywK7ZAGyJ6ZvXAmgkwA_aem_6aR8uNsYWSU-JybqVcIkyA

Great news. Thanks for posting. 

[GP1]

Here is an interesting article on what happens to college towns when enrollment declines. 

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/what-happens-to-college-towns-after

 

I guess for Akron it isn't impactful because Akron isn't a college town. The area around UofA is sort of like a small town, but the businesses seem to have right sized. 

[Blue & Gold]

KSU to eliminate 19 undergrad majors.  Due to lack of conferring degrees (<5) over a 3-year window. A couple of these programs should have never been majors to begin with, but the vast majority of these are serious areas of study.

Edited December 13, 2025 by Blue & Gold

[Reslife4Life]

4 hours ago, Blue &amp; Gold said:

KSU to eliminate 19 undergrad majors.  Due to lack of conferring degrees (<5) over a 3-year window. A couple of these programs should have never been majors to begin with, but the vast majority of these are serious areas of study.

Chemistry, Life Science, Math, Physics. That is wild to eliminate majors that have been around since basically whenever higher education started

[adzip]

Kent had, in some cases, multiple degrees for the same subject area. Most of the subject areas are still available but without multiple degree designations (i. e. B.A vs B.S.). They are not eliminating nine study areas. They are, however, still Kant State and offering many degrees without viable career paths and without the intern, coop,  research, club groups that create opportuntunies that have become a signature feature of many of Akron's options. Note the last edition of Zip Insider where Allen, the pole vaulter with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and now pursuing a Master's in statistics mentioned the importance of internships even with the stem degrees she is getting. The importance of having degrees in job-oriented fields with good experience opportunities was also cited in this week's Board meeting by the Provost as being a factor in the increased number of 2027 applications even with a smaller student pool. She mentioned that Akron is doing a better job of telling that story to prospective students and finding more who are listening to that set of factors in their decision making. I hope that is true because students need to consider these items. Students too often pick colleges for insane reasons. Akron needs to continue down this road of making their degrees produce job-ready graduates in as high a percentage as possible. 

 

GO ZIPS!

[GP1]

On 12/13/2025 at 7:51 AM, Blue &amp; Gold said:

KSU to eliminate 19 undergrad majors.  Due to lack of conferring degrees (<5) over a 3-year window. A couple of these programs should have never been majors to begin with, but the vast majority of these are serious areas of study.

Looks like these potheads made some rare good decisions. 

[LZIp]

Haven’t seen anything posted yet, but was curious how enrollment was doing. When considering both UA main and Wayne campus, total enrollment looks to be up by 24 students compared to the fall of 25. Looks like a little less undergrad enrollment, with more enrolled in graduate and law school.

[csims0917]

Two straight years in the green. The goal is to maintain and stop the shrinking as we enter a generation of less college aged students every year due to birth rates. Every year in the green is a great step for the university even if it's only a growth of a few dozen.

[Zips1991]

2 hours ago, csims0917 said:

Two straight years in the green. The goal is to maintain and stop the shrinking as we enter a generation of less college aged students every year due to birth rates. Every year in the green is a great step for the university even if it's only a growth of a few dozen.

While I guess it's good there wasn't a decline overall, I was expecting growth based on last year's growth.

[csims0917]

1 minute ago, Zips1991 said:

While I guess it's good there wasn't a decline overall, I was expecting growth based on last year's growth.

It's definitely growth but not in the traditional sense. Gotta find a new metric to measure "growth" cause year to year growth won't quite make as much sense as it used too. Maybe a percentage of students in Ohio? Something like that