Enrollment at IUP has gone down again.
In a news release, the 2019 enrollment for IUP is 10,636 students, a six percent decrease from last year’s 11,325 students. 10,348 students enrolled this year are in degree-seeking programs, with another 288 students in career prep programs, which include the Criminal Justice Training Center, the Academy of Culinary Arts, the Clinical Medical Assistant training program, and the paramedic training program.
1,864 of this year’s students are freshmen, and the statement touted their quality credentials. The new freshmen class has a grade point average of 3.31, with a total of 112 in this group graduating in the top 10% of their class.
Student retention was on the rise from last year to this year, going up by nearly two percentage points from to just over 72 percent for this year.
IUP also announced that 964 of their students are veterans or military-affiliated students, which makes up 9% of the student body. 929 of them are in the graduate or under-grad programs, and another 35 are in career prep programs. Since the fall of 2016, when IUP opened their Military and Veterans Resource Center, enrollment of vets and military-affiliated students has gone up 67 percent.
The largest total undergrad and graduate enrollment program is the College of Health and Human Services, with 2,689 undergraduates, and 489 graduate students.
