34,732 Enrolled This Fall at Iowa State
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CycloneErik
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ISU didn't even break 30,000 until 2012. Now it's basically 35,000 two years later.
CycloneErik
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Right. It's been astronomical.
This year doesn't seem as crowded as last year, which is odd.
I posted this in another thread, but the new regents funding model will be very important for ISU.
From the current regents agenda, how ISU plans to use new funds from funding model: http://www.regents.iowa.gov/Meetings/DocketMemos/14Memos/September2014/0914_ITEM08.pdf
State funding cuts have taken state funding of the Universities down to around 30% while tuition now accounts for over 60% of funding, hence the emphasis on enrollment growth at ISU. This additional funding could help ISU keep up the pace with faculty hires among other things as mentioned above. A funding model based on performance and enrollment make much more sense than the current model which just bases funding off of last years percentage split.
From the current regents agenda, how ISU plans to use new funds from funding model: http://www.regents.iowa.gov/Meetings/DocketMemos/14Memos/September2014/0914_ITEM08.pdf
State funding cuts have taken state funding of the Universities down to around 30% while tuition now accounts for over 60% of funding, hence the emphasis on enrollment growth at ISU. This additional funding could help ISU keep up the pace with faculty hires among other things as mentioned above. A funding model based on performance and enrollment make much more sense than the current model which just bases funding off of last years percentage split.
That's a huge amount of growth in two years. Is there even class space for all those students?
Sidewalks are disastrous between 10-2. You can always count on an idiot texting and walking in slo-mo while doing so. The food trucks have helped out but the infrastructure is pushed about as far as it can go.
The second they had to have people living in dens to me was the point Iowa State was ruining the experience of the dorms.
The second they had to have people living in dens to me was the point Iowa State was ruining the experience of the dorms.
They've had people living in dens at the start of the year every year for decades. That isn't new.
In-state admission standards are pretty much the same at ISU and Iowa. Neither are that selective, some individual programs are much tougher to get into though.
In before a Hawkeye contradicting this. It is true, but it's also not.
All three schools use the same "RAI Score" standard and applicants who meet the minimum score are automatically in.
But, each school can also admit students on a case-by-case basis who don't meet the minimum RAI score. Iowa State has admitted some more of these sub-RAI applicants than Iowa has, but not a ridiculous amount more - and certainly nowhere near the amount of the difference in enrollment.
We'll see how many each school admitted this fall, though, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Iowa raise their rate of acceptance for this type of applicant given the new funding formula.
Wow that is some explosive growth. How can ISU ensure they are building for the right amount of students in the future and not just a temporary boom?
They have renovated old spaces, and built new (Troxel and ABE complex) with more renovation and new building projects in the pipeline to be completed in the next few years (Biosciences building project and student innovation center- collaborative space for engineering and design programs). Also have maximized potential with class scheduling. They have hired around 250-300 tenure track professors in the past two years or so and are planning many more (especially with additional funding due to new funding model)
