Enrollments at the 32 member institutions of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System rose slightly over the last year, officials said recently, as they released the system’s 30th day enrollment figures.

This fall, the system has 173,016 students, an increase of 2,262 students from last fall’s enrollment of 170,754. That is a 1.3 percent increase. Enrollment increased at 17 colleges and four state universities and decreased at nine colleges and three state universities. Overall, enrollment was up by 2.4 percent at the community and technical colleges and down about 0.6 percent at the seven state universities.

Lake Superior College is among the colleges at which enrollment decreased. According to the report, LSC is experiencing a two percent drop this fall.

The full-year-equivalent enrollment in credits is projected to increase by 0.6 percent for the current year. (Full-year-equivalent enrollment is calculated by adding the credits taken by all students and dividing by the number of credits considered to be a full-time course load – 30 credits per year for undergraduates and 20 credits for graduate students.)

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