Office of Institutional Research

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay                   

FALL 2001 ENROLLMENT UPDATE: WEEK 10

(Enrollments from 6/12/2000 and 6/11/2001, ten weeks after the start of advanced registration.)

STUDENT CATEGORY Full-time Equivalents

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Tuition Value 2001
2000 2001 2000 2001
Continuing Undergraduates: 2876 3014 3296 3454 $4,783,324
FR 136 113 172 149 $208,866
SO 897 955 1000 1063 $1,510,097
JR 778 827 863 916 $1,272,252
SR 1065 1119 1261 1326 $1,792,019
New Freshmen 854 782 951 853 $1,220,159
Transfers 269 253 334 313 $427,545
Reentries 41 45 68 80 $72,594
Specials 1 1 1 1 $5,715
Graduate Students 31 25 56 45 $66,923
TOTAL REGULAR 4072 4120 4706 4747 $6,576,170

 

STUDENT CATEGORY Current 2001 FTE Projected Change Projected 2001 FTE FTE Goal Projection as a % of Goal
Continuing Undergraduates: 3,014 +1.1% 3,049 2,950 103.3%
New Freshmen 782 +2.8% 804 862 93.3%
Transfers 253 +39.0% 352 330 106.6%
Reentries 45 +46.3% 66 50 131.7%
Specials 1 +4400% 45 45 100.0%
Graduate Students 25 +129.0% 57 70 81.8%
SUBTOTAL 4,120 - 4,372 4,307 101.5%
EDP Students 107 -2.0% 105 50 209.8%
GRAND TOTAL 4,227 - 4,477 4,357 102.8%

Notes: Only students taking regular on-campus courses are counted; extension, remedial, study abroad, high school and agency funded enrollments are excluded. Extended Degree students are tallied in the lower table; they are included in the upper table only if they are also taking regular courses on campus. The tuition estimates incorporate information about the students' residencies and credit loads.  Projections are based on last years trends.  

Advanced registration of New Fall Freshmen for 2001 has ended, and we can now predict a much smaller freshman class than in the past several years.  19% of the freshmen who have already registered graduated in the top 10% of their high school class; 52% graduated in the top quarter.

Total enrollments continue to run slightly ahead of last year in both heads (up 41, or 0.9%) and FTEs (up 48, or 1.2%).  The increase is coming almost entirely from continuing undergraduates, who are up 138 FTE (about 4.8%).

As summer progresses, we will be tracking our registrations against two targets:
Total Fall FTE target (including the Extended Degree Program) 4357 FTE
There appears to be very little chance that UW-Green Bay will fail to achieve our FTE target.  How much we exceed the target will depend on enrollment management decisions made over the course of the summer, especially in regard to transfer student admission deadlines.

Fall Tuition Revenue Target unconfirmed at this time.  We have proposed a target of approximately $7.1 million.  Current revenue billed is slightly higher than last year at this time -- by about 0.8% -- reflecting the slight increased enrollment to date.  Our current revenue figure of $6.6 million is about $500,000 short of the proposed target.  Last year, tuition revenues increased approximately 10% after this point in time.  If tuition revenues increase in a similar fashion this year, we will reach the target and could have a tuition revenue surplus from the fall.

EDP has currently enrolled 251 students (33 of whom are also taking regular campus courses) and 107 FTE that will be counted in the Fall 2001 campus totals.  This compares with 239 students and 101 FTE last year.

We appear to be heading for a second year of improvements in the retention of new freshmen and of second-year students.  Retention rates for those cohorts may be as much as 3-4% higher than the prior year. Official retention rates will not be available until Fall.

Prior week's reports:

 

University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
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Office Contact: Debbie Furlong, Director of Institutional Research
Address: Office of Provost , 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI, 54311
Phone: (920)465-2374               email: furlongd@uwgb.edu