Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State’s enrollment has increased nearly 10% since 2022 and its president cited the work by the university to reduce students barriers to attend as a reason for the growth.
“The colleges, the faculty and the staff, the amount of work behind this is phenomenal,” said Sue Edwards, Wright State’s president.
Enrolment for first-time, graduate and transfer students are up this year and retention levels remain similar, leading to a 7% increase in enrollment compared to the fall 2023 semester.
It’s also the third consecutive year that the number of first-time, first-year students had increased at the university.
Edwards said the work of student success coaches, the financial aid office and advisors to remove barriers to the students has helped the university.
Wright State saw a decline in overall enrollment from about 2015 to 2022, when enrollment hit a low of about 10,798 students across the main campus in Fairborn and the Lake Campus in Mercer County. The university made faculty reductions in 2022 and some staff were laid off prior to that, with WSU citing the need to “right-size.”
