{"id":153700,"date":"2024-09-20T06:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=153700"},"modified":"2024-09-20T06:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:37:56","slug":"wyso-public-radio-wright-state-enrollment-increases-3rd-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/09\/20\/wyso-public-radio-wright-state-enrollment-increases-3rd-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"WYSO Public Radio: Wright State enrollment increases 3rd year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/09\/20\/wyso-public-radio-wright-state-enrollment-increases-3rd-year-in-a-row\/clap-in-70607_214-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-153702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-153702\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/09\/Clap-In-70607_214-1-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>Wright State University\u2019s enrollment is up for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, the student population has grown by more than 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State said in an announcement that the school welcomed 2,012 first-time undergraduate students for the fall 2024 semester, compared to 1,394 students in the fall of 2021 and 1,713 last year.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40% of them are Pell Grant recipients, topping the national average for universities.<\/p>\n<p>Nursing is the most popular major for new students this fall, according to the university.<\/p>\n<p>For the fall semester, the total student headcount at Wright State\u2019s Dayton and Lake campuses is 11,822, a 7.12% increase from last fall\u2019s headcount of 11,036.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are experiencing enrollment growth at a time when national, state, and local enrollment trends are moving the other way,\u201d Susan Schaurer, vice president for enrollment management, said in a statement. \u201cOur fall enrollment is another indicator of Wright State\u2019s continued momentum and success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/education-news\/2024-09-18\/wright-state-enrollment-increases-3rd-year-in-a-row\">wyso.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University\u2019s enrollment is up for the third year in a row. Since 2021, the student population has grown by more than 40%. Wright State said in an announcement that the school welcomed 2,012 first-time undergraduate students for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/09\/20\/wyso-public-radio-wright-state-enrollment-increases-3rd-year-in-a-row\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":153702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153707,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153700\/revisions\/153707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}