(2) The targets shown here are preliminary targets from the 2003-04 revenue projection, which has not been finalized.
(3) The tuition rates shown here are 2002-03 rates.  For information on projected 2003-04 tuition rates, see UW System Legislative Update, 2/21/2003.

Highlights

• Our Fall 2003 total FTE target is 4,387 (up 30 from last year's target).  We have enrolled 3567 FTE towards that target.  In the coming weeks, we anticipate enrolling approximately 75 more FTE in the transfer student category and 950 FTE in the new freshmen category.  Reentries, Undergraduate Special and Graduate Student enrollments will grow by about 120 FTE (combined) between now and the end of the summer.

• Last year at this time, freshman registration has begun.  This year, new freshmen will register between June 10 and June 18.

• Our tuition revenue target for 2003-04 has not been established. However, we know it will be approximately the same as 2002-03.  In 2002-03, we overshot our fall FTE target but failed to achieve our tuition revenue target.  Because our students are taking heavier credit loads, it requires fewer students to achieve the FTE target.  Since tuition is generated on the basis of students (not FTEs), reducing the number of enrolled students depresses tuition revenues.  A decline in non-resident students, who pay much higher tuition, has contributed to declining revenues.  Both of these trends -- students taking heavier loads and fewer non-residents attending -- are escalating in our 2003 student body.  Achieving our tuition revenue target will require enrolling more FTEs than are currently built into the target of 4387.
  

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