This article is worth reading. The stats are more clearly presented.
"The Montana University System’s flagship school has seen declining enrollment since a record high point in Fall 2011, with the current figures showing a nearly 35% decline in total student headcount since then.
The total headcount of students, including all levels of students on the main campus, as well as at Missoula College, now sits at 10,247.
The present overall number is now smaller than UM’s undergraduate enrollment peak in Fall 2010, according to that semester’s census day report, when it counted 10,891 undergrads. As of the census report released Tuesday, the number of undergraduate students nearly halved, dropping 47% to 5,789.
Between Fall 2013 and Fall 2019, MSU saw a 28% jump in out-of-state students, who bring in considerably more tuition revenue than in-state students. At the same time, UM’s out-of-state enrollment fell just over 12%.
[Note that MSU has been offsetting a lightly lower in-state enrollment with a huge increase in out-of-state enrollment.]
And while MSU’s in-state students fell slightly, UM’s dropped by more than 30%.
Undergraduates have been hit the hardest since enrollment began falling nearly a decade ago, with the Chronicle of Higher Education reporting last semester that UM has lost more undergrads than any other public flagship in the country this decade.
https://missoulian.com/news/local/university-of-montana-enrollment-dips-again-but-shows-retention-progress/article_de8471ce-60b6-5f1b-997d-93487dd9c251.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
"The Montana University System’s flagship school has seen declining enrollment since a record high point in Fall 2011, with the current figures showing a nearly 35% decline in total student headcount since then.
The total headcount of students, including all levels of students on the main campus, as well as at Missoula College, now sits at 10,247.
The present overall number is now smaller than UM’s undergraduate enrollment peak in Fall 2010, according to that semester’s census day report, when it counted 10,891 undergrads. As of the census report released Tuesday, the number of undergraduate students nearly halved, dropping 47% to 5,789.
Between Fall 2013 and Fall 2019, MSU saw a 28% jump in out-of-state students, who bring in considerably more tuition revenue than in-state students. At the same time, UM’s out-of-state enrollment fell just over 12%.
[Note that MSU has been offsetting a lightly lower in-state enrollment with a huge increase in out-of-state enrollment.]
And while MSU’s in-state students fell slightly, UM’s dropped by more than 30%.
Undergraduates have been hit the hardest since enrollment began falling nearly a decade ago, with the Chronicle of Higher Education reporting last semester that UM has lost more undergrads than any other public flagship in the country this decade.
https://missoulian.com/news/local/university-of-montana-enrollment-dips-again-but-shows-retention-progress/article_de8471ce-60b6-5f1b-997d-93487dd9c251.html#tracking-source=home-top-story