PSU freshman, transfer, and international student enrollment is up

For the second year in a row, Pittsburg State University has seen an increase in freshman enrollment, which is up 4.9 percent, and transfer student enrollment, which is up 2.4 percent. 

International undergraduate and graduate student enrollment also is up, rebounding from the pandemic with a total of 265 international students. 

But there is some work to do, university leadership said Thursday after the 20th Day fall census enrollment figures were announced by the Kansas Board of Regents. 

“Overall, our enrollment is down 2.6 percent, and the decline is in returning students,” said Howard Smith, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. “We are taking an aggressive campus-wide approach to learn what students experience as barriers to graduating, and already have begun to take steps to eliminate or reduce those barriers.”