WSU Tri-Cities’ Fall Enrollment Second Highest Ever, Again

TRI-CITIES, Wash. — The fall semester student count at Washington State University Tri-Cities is exactly the same as last year, matching the second–highest enrollment level in the urban campuses’ 17-year history.

Official 10th day figures show the Richland campus has 1,144 students, the same number as fall 2004. That figure represents student head count, that is, individual students enrolled.

The full-time student equivalent figure – a composite number which measures how much coursework enrolled students are taking and the figure that drives state funding – jumped 4.7 percent from last year’s fall semester.

Systemwide, WSU enrolled 23,330 students for the current semester, up about one percent overall from last year.

At the Richland campus, about 59 percent of the students are women. Among students stating ethnicity, students of color make up 10.5 percent of the enrollment, up from 9.9 percent last year.