MANHATTAN — Spring enrollment at Kansas State University’s Manhattan campus is at an all-time high, and the diversity of the campus’s student body continues to grow.

For spring 2015, the Manhattan campus enrollment is 20,038, up from 19,969 in spring 2014. The increase includes more undergraduates, more multicultural students and more international students.

Pat Bosco,  vice president for student life and dean of students, credits the Manhattan campus enrollment increase to university programs targeting retention, diversity and student success, as well as dedicated faculty and staff.

“These successes would not have been possible without a team effort, including our outstanding faculty, academic deans, advisers, student life professionals — especially admissions — and our donors, whose support is shown in record gifts, including more student scholarship opportunities,” Bosco said.

Kansas State University remains the No. 1 choice among high school seniors in Kansas, with the Manhattan campus home to the majority of the university’s undergraduates. For spring 2015, undergraduate enrollment on the campus is 17,103, up from 16,961 a year ago.

“Our freshmen classes continue to get stronger each year, which is reflected by our increasing freshmen-to-sophomore student retention rate,” Bosco said. “This year’s freshmen class, of which the majority attends the Manhattan campus, had an average ACT composite score of 24.1, the highest in the university’s history. The number of freshmen with a composite ACT score of 29 also is growing, while the number of students dismissed or placed on academic warning is shrinking. All that speaks to a university that truly cares about student success.”

The student body on the Manhattan campus includes 1,129 Hispanic/Latino students, which is up from 1,063 last spring. African-American, Asian and multiracial student enrollment is up this spring as well.