Fall 2016 Enrollment Report

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Headcount History by School, 2012-2016

Total Fall 2016 headcount enrollment is 6,482, an increase of 2.4% from Fall 2015. All schools, excepting Medicine and Pharmacy showed an increase in enrollment compared to Fall 2015.  Over five years, the School of Law's enrollment has decreased by 19%, while the enrollment in the School of Pharmacy has increased by 10.6%.  During that same time span, the overall headcount enrollment at UMB has increased by 1.8%.

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FTES History by School, 2012-2016

Total Fall 2016 FTES enrollment is 6,421, an increase of 4.4% compared with Fall 2015.  All schools, excepting Medicine, increased in FTES enrollment from Fall 2015 to Fall 2016.  FTES enrollment for Medicine decreased slightly.  Over a five-year period, the total FTES enrollment at UMB has increased by 1.7%.

Table 2

Headcount Change by Degree

The increase in enrollment for Fall 2016 is largely attributable to increases in the Nursing Practice DNP (86), Nursing BSN (46), Social Work MSW (37), Health Science MS (35), and Law MS (29) programs.  The MS in Nursing program showed the largest loss in enrollment between 2015 and 2016, with a decrease of 47 students (7.8%), while the MS in Pharmacy program saw a decrease in enrollment of 26 (19.5%) and the JD in Law Day program decreased in enrollment by 21 (4.0%).  The new MS in Forensic Medicine program had an initial enrollment of 9 students. 

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Projected vs. Actual Headcount by Degree

Fall 2016 enrollment total is 2.3% greater than projected. While many programs are close to the projections, some have significant deviations. The Nursing MS, Law MS, Social Work MSW, and Law Evening JD programs enrolled the most number of students over their projected enrollments. Dental Hygiene BS, Medicine MD, and Global Health Services and Systems certificate programs have the largest disparity among the programs that failed to reach their projected enrollment.

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FTES Change by Degree

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Headcount by Gender

Women comprise 71.6% of the total Fall 2016 enrollment, with higher enrollments in all programs except for Dentistry PhD where men account for 66.7% of enrollment. The Dentistry DDS, Law LLM, Law Day JD, Law Evening JD, Pharmacy PhD, and Dentistry Post Graduate Certificate programs are split equally or almost equally.

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