SHREVEPORT – Another semester, another record.
LSU Shreveport broke its enrollment for the third straight semester with 10,926 students with the second spring session in full swing.
The figure is nearly seven percent than Spring 2024 enrollment and up 75 students from Fall 2024’s previous record of 10,851.
“Just last spring, we were celebrating crossing the 10,000 mark for the first time in university history,” said LSUS Chancellor Dr. Robert Smith. “We’ve very nearly hit 11,000 just one year later, and that’s because of the dedication of our faculty and staff.
“LSUS is offering programs that are meeting student interests as well as contemporary workforce needs.”
LSUS enrollment has increased from fall to spring in consecutive years, which is unusual considering nearly all universities have higher fall enrollments with the influx of first-time freshmen.
All enrollment categories experienced growth this spring, which includes more than an eight percent increase in undergraduate students and a 6.5 percent increase in graduate students.
LSUS continues to expand its enrollment despite multiple record-setting graduations, including a Fall 2024 ceremony with 1,500 graduates.
“We’re still growing despite record graduations, and we’re growing in every possible category,” Smith said. “Undergraduate and graduate, online and face-to-face, dual enrollment – we’re up everywhere.
“One of the most exciting figures is that our credit hours are growing at a faster rate than our enrollment, which means we have more students taking more hours on average than in the past.”
Key sources of undergraduate growth this spring include new transfer students (up 37 percent from Spring 2024) and first-time freshmen (up 53 percent).
Student retention is another factor of overall growth as more students are returning for their second year and progressing toward degrees.
That growth doesn’t appear to be stopping any time soon as Smith highlighted that LSUS is “blowing by” its recruiting goals for applications for Fall 2025.