Update:

Specific numbers revealed Monday show that overall enrollment for 2015 is 24,212, down 554 students from Fall 2014.

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Expect fall semester enrollment at Kansas State University to be down.

That’s according to KSU President Dr. Kirk Schulz.

During his State of the University remarks on Friday, Schulz noted K-State was not yet at the official 20th day enrollment numbers, “We are going to be down in enrollment this fall for the first time over the last several years by several hundred students. This is sort of across the board in international students, on graduate students, undergraduates and so on and so forth.”

Schulz stated the University will have the official numbers out. “But know that our enrollment will be somewhere still above 24,000 but we’ll have those numbers out there.”

He stated officials will dialogue about this topic on campus over the next several weeks and months as an enrollment management task force is formed to set some enrollment goals, and determine how the University would like to grow, in what particular areas, the necessary resources that are needed,  and how there can be more effective support for those growing areas on campus.

Schulz noted K-State is still the number one choice for Kansas high school graduates, and will have the most diverse and most academically gifted entering class in K-State history.