Record 20,480 students enroll at BGSU

BOWLING GREEN, O.—Bowling Green State University is starting the school year with a headcount enrollment of 20,480 students, the highest in the institution’s history.

The figure is 1 percent higher than a year ago when 20,276 students were enrolled on the15th day of classes, the day on which final enrollment figures are tabulated each semester.

The BGSU Firelands College in Huron showed the biggest gain in student registration, with a record headcount enrollment of 1,707 students, an 11.1 percent increase.

On the main campus, there are now 17,741 students; this figure grows to 18,773 when those students taking courses at BGSU extension sites and abroad are added.

BGSU welcomed 4,331 new students to the main campus fall semester. They include 3,630 freshmen and 701 transfer students.

“We’re very pleased to have a record enrollment and, by all measures, a really top quality entering class,” Dr. John Folkins, provost and vice president for academic affairs, said.

(Posted September 23, 2002)