LSUS sets another enrollment record this fall

By Matt Vines November 01, 2024

SHREVEPORT - For the second straight semester, LSU Shreveport is celebrating record enrollment.

LSUS enrolled 10,851 students this fall with growth in both undergraduate and graduate students.

That figure is up 11 percent from Fall 2023 and more than 24 percent from Fall 2022. LSUS broke the 10,000-mark for the first time in Spring 2024 with 10,214 students.

"I am very proud of the work that our faculty and staff are doing to recruit new students and to retain already enrolled students," said LSUS Chancellor Dr. Robert Smith. "It is a clear testament to the dedication of our faculty and staff that our retention rate has risen so dramatically this year.

"This doesn't happen by accident, but only because the entire LSUS team of faculty and staff is focused on the success of our students. It's remarkable that our enrollment is up in every category: undergraduate, graduate, face-to-face and online."

The 10,851 enrollment for Fall 2024 reflects new students in LSUS's second accelerated fall session that began earlier in October.

LSUS's graduate programs remain wildly popular as its 8,118 students is a university record, growing 13 percent from Fall 2023.

Retaining graduate students is a key driver of growth as 5,376 students continued their degrees, which is up more than 1,200 students from the previous year.

The undergraduate student population continues to grow consistently as the 2,733 total is the highest since before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

The number of first-time freshmen (301) grew year-over-year for the first time since COVID-19, and an increase in continuing undergraduate students (six percent climb from Fall 2023) contributed to the overall growth.

LSUS's dedication to student success is reflected in its retention of both undergraduate and graduate students.

The University is one of only 11 universities nationally participating in the inaugural cohort to transform the early college experience, which is being led by the John Gardner Institute and Complete College America.

LSUS emphasizes offering programs that students want and employers need, which translates into improved economic status for its graduates.

The University received the highest ranking in the state for the second year in a row, in the annual Economic Mobility Index, which measures how effectively institutions assist low-income students to improve their socioeconomic status by graduating into well-paying jobs.

LSUS ranked in the top 20 percent nationally in the study conducted by the organization Third Way, which published in September of 2023.

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