Bradley 2024 freshman enrollment

[bradleyfan124]

I know that but it's just an alibi...
They have seen the numbers as they are, they know who is on campus, who is enrolled and who are attending classes, AND they know the numbers & the Board has been actively discussing this exact topic for many months.
So to say they have never even seen the numbers is not true, in my opinion.

also, in that first article above,
"Illinois Central College announced in August an increase in enrollment for the fall semester.
The community college had 8,008 students enrolled, a 5.1% increase from the previous year."

up 5.1% is a significant jump and many of those people will be looking for a 4-year school to transfer to so Bradley ought to be vigorously marketing some special deals to the ones that are the best candidates...

I have heard that is the biggest problem, lack of marketing. They used to go out to the high schools and recruit but dont anymore. They wait for the students come to them. Anyway that is what was told to me by a Marketing professor

 

[yoda]

Even worse
they are cutting their own throats by eliminating departments like physics which needs to be strong in order to draw the applicants interested in engineering
Some of the recent decisions dating back to the Glasser era have doomed Bradley for years to come.
Promoting “Women and Gender Studies” degrees sounds trendy but it drives away more than it attracts.

 

[bradleybravesfan]

Bradley has been pretty quiet regarding their freshmen enrollment numbers, probably because they are extremely disappointing.
However, they finally posted a "cryptic" accounting of freshman enrollment on their website by saying:
"First-year Student enrollment: 1027, Transfer enrollment: 185​"

Thus, the freshman enrollment is 842.
Recall that when freshman enrollment plummeted under Glasser, Roberts quickly got the freshman enrollment back up over 1,250,
and it stayed there his entire tenure.... and it wasn't because BU lowered academic standards - they actually had the highest GPA's and SAT scores ever ( https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/s...-bradley-freshman-enrollment/page3#post465087 )
This is 100% on Standifird.

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/s...ll-fan-talk/26004-bradley-freshman-enrollment
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/s...-bradley-freshman-enrollment/page3#post465087
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/s...-bradley-freshman-enrollment/page3#post455115

Those numbers from the Bradley website aren't accurate. The Bradley QuickFacts page is inaccurate and the specific numbers date back to early 2021, meaning the numbers were for the Class of 2020 which did have a class of over 1000 freshmen and 185 new transfer students. Subtracting the numbers is also inaccurate since they always classify transfer students as separate from freshmen.

This year's enrollment numbers were announced in a faculty meeting the other day. Total enrollment in 2023 was 5215. Total in 2024 is 4777, a decrease of 8.4%. It has not dipped below 5000 in recent years.

Undergraduate enrollment is down 7.3% from 3883 to 3600. Freshman enrollment in 2023 was 833, this year it is 811. Transfer students are down slightly from 133 to 120.

Grad enrollment which includes on-campus and online declined from 1332 to 1177. On-campus grad students declined from 183 to 86, from that subset, international students take up a big chunk of the on-campus graduate population, declining from 137 to 43. Down 53% and 68% respectively. Overall, grim picture for enrollment this year.

 

[NashvilleBU]

The problem is easy to see. BU is super expensive - 52k a year for full room/board and no scholarships. Most starting salaries are around 40-80k a year…the ROI is tough to convince anymore. If you’re not getting a high business or engineering job (or going to graduate, law or medical school) after college, it just doesn’t make much sense IMO.

I graduated in 2015 and it was still expensive and it was around 25-30k a year but was helpful with scholarships and other academic aid.