Oregon State University - Cascades posted official fall enrollment numbers this week, showing a slight increase over anticipated total enrollment. The campus has a total enrollment of 1,039 students, including 238 students taking lower-level courses at Central Oregon Community College in preparation for transferring to OSU-Cascades. This reflects an overall enrollment increase of 11 percent and a 39 percent increase in freshmen and sophomores.
Juniors, seniors and graduate students, who represent the group officially counted by the Oregon University System, is up nearly 5 percent, to 801 students, although FTE decreased, reflecting fewer students taking full course loads.
Thirty percent of the student body is new to OSU-Cascades this fall. OSU-Cascades continues to draw students primarily from Central Oregon and Oregon, although students also represent California and 17 other states.
There are 124 students in the graduate counseling and teaching programs; as of this fall, those programs are delivered out of the Graduate & Research Center.
More than 65 students, twice as many as in 2011, are taking OSU online courses and are not included in the official numbers reported by OUS or OSU-Cascades.
Oregon State University's main campus in Corvallis grew by 4 percent.
Posted: November 8, 2012