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October 2, 2012

Enrollment Data: Fall 2012 Released

Fall 2012 Data
The Fall 2012 Official Enrollment Statistics and New Freshman Characteristics data has been loaded. The Fall Enrollment Map and the Fall Student Enrollment Pivot reports also have the Fall 2012 data. All of these reports can be found in the student data section.

Enrollment Totals
University of Minnesota system: 68,418
Twin Cities: 51,853
Duluth: 11,491
Morris: 1,896
Crookston: 2,764
Rochester: 414

Source: Fall Enrollment Pivot Table by Term, Campus, Level

New Freshman Undergraduate totals
University of Minnesota system: 8,189
Twin Cities: 5,514
Duluth: 1,881
Morris: 413
Crookston: 241
Rochester: 140

Source: Fall Enrollment Pivot Table by Term, Registration Status, Campus, Level



The enrollment reports have a much finer level of detail, along with the five-year trends for enrollment.

New Freshman Characteristics
The New Freshman Characteristics highlight a continued increase in the ACT scores of the Fall 2012 Freshman cohort. For the Twin Cities campus, the mean composite ACT score is 27.7 and the median score is 28. The mean score for the Fall 2002 cohort was 24.7. The College of Science and Engineering reported the highest college level composite ACT score mean of 30.6, followed closely by the College of Biological Sciences with 30.2 (Source). It should be noted that the High School Rank should be viewed cautiously as fewer values are submitted with students' applications than in the past (Over 35% missing for Twin Cities campus).

Enrollment Map Highlights
The Fall Enrollment Map was updated last summer to shows three views of the student population: Normalized by location, 1 Year Difference and 5 Year Difference. This tool can highlight some of the regional differences of the Institution versus a College. For example, viewing all Twin Cities campus understands map compared to College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) undergrads highlights the amount of rural county students attending CFANS compared to the Twin Cities metro area.

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Twin Cities Fall 2012 Undergraduate map (Source)


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CFANS Fall 2012 Undergraduate map (Source)



More on the Fall Enrollment Pivot Tool
The Fall Student Enrollment Pivot reports were created to enable our users to cross a few of our key variables which are reported separately on the Official Enrollment Reports. Take a look if you are hoping to find a finer detail level within variable sub-groups, for example Gender by Ethnicity Group. With the Fall 2012 release, we are able to provide five years of data on this report.

Historical Student Data
The Historical Student Headcounts graph shows the Twin Cities campus enrollment since 1867. The 2012-13 enrollment has been loaded.

September 5, 2012

Released: Summer 2012 Enrollment

The University of Minnesota Official Enrollment Statistics for the Summer 2012 term have been released. The overall enrollment stood at 19,292 which is down from last summer. This is due to a decrease in graduate and non-degree students. Undergraduate enrollment is 10,178.

The series of reports is available on the Official Enrollment Statistics page.

July 19, 2012

Released: May Session 2012 Enrollment

The 2012 May Session Term enrollment data has been released. This report is an Excel file as opposed to the full web-based reports. There were 2,971 students enrolled in the University of Minnesota system for this term.


Released: Spring 2012 Undergrad Student Performance

The Spring 2012 Undergraduate Student Performance reports, which contains Term/Cumulative GPA, Credits Completed and Credits Completed Percentage for all campuses, are now available to current students, faculty and staff.

View the reports on the student performance index page.

June 8, 2012

2012 AIR Forum Presentations

The Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Planning and Analysis presented at four sessions at the 2012 AIR Forum in New Orleans from June 2-6.



Deconstructing Delta: Explaining Educational Costs Through Analysis of the Instructional Portfolio

Examining Class in the Classroom: Utilizing Social Class Data in Institutional and Academic Research

Defining First-Generation Students by Degrees: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice

A Holistic Assessment of a Campus-wide Initiative to Build Strengths: From Building a Conceptual Framework to Reporting Results


All of these presentations and other related resources are available to download from the Papers and Presentations page.

May 1, 2012

Spring 2012 Average Credits Added

The Spring 2012 enrollment reports average credits have been added to the Official Enrollment Statistics - Credit Load report.

April 3, 2012

SERU After Two Weeks

The 2012 SERU survey administration has been open for two weeks. Thanks to the recent release of the University's Oracle Business Intelligence tool, we are able to share the response rates by day as well as the breakdown by the undergraduate colleges here at UMN. The results are available on the UMatter: SERU site.

8.7% University of Minnesota undergraduates have responded.