The Office of Budget and Planning released the 2013 spring semester enrollment numbers Wednesday evening, which revealed a slight decrease in total enrollment from fall 2012 but a small increase from spring 2012.
The total enrollment count for students registered at the University for spring 2013, which includes undergraduate, graduate and professional students, is 27,365 students.
Enrollment for the fall 2012 semester was at 29,549 students, leaving spring 2013 at a 7.4 percent decrease in the number of students enrolled from fall 2012.
In spring 2012, 27,162 students were enrolled in the University, which is 203 students fewer than the number of students currently enrolled.
This semester, 527 new freshmen undergraduates enrolled at the University, a 73 percent increase from last spring.
The University had 347 new transfer undergraduate students as well, down 16 percent from spring 2012.
At 22,649, undergraduate students enrolled this semester make up about 83 percent of the student body.
Graduate students make up the second-largest portion of the University, with 4,338 students.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has the largest enrollment of the senior colleges with 3,427 students. This enrollment is up 1.5 percent since last semester but has decreased about 8 percent from spring 2012.
At 50 students, the School of the Coast and Environment has the least amount of students of the senior colleges, and this is a 9 percent decrease from spring 2012 but a 2 percent increase from last semester.
The College of Engineering is the second-largest senior college with 3,288 students, up 7 percent from fall 2012 and up 8 percent from spring 2012.
The graduate school of Human Science and Education has the largest enrollment among graduate students with 951 students.
This semester, University undergraduate students are taking a total of 311,316 credit hours— an average of 13.7 credit hours per student.
Undergraduate students enrolled in the fall 2012 semester averaged 14 credit hours.
Graduate students this semester are taking 48,010 credit hours, averaging 11 credit hours per student.
