Year after year, LSU has boasted record-breaking freshmen enrollment. But that growth might have finally hit a wall, LSU’s president said at a Tuesday Board of Regents meeting.

“You won’t probably hear me next year say, ‘We broke an enrollment record,’ unless it’s by like 10 or 15,” LSU President William F. Tate IV said. “… We’re not trying to grow it anymore.”

With a campus of 39,000 students, Tate said, “You just can’t continue to grow like that without infrastructure changes.”

“I don’t know what will happen next year. The demand will remain high, I hope,” he said. “But we have to change our dorm structure. There’s a lot of things that have to happen, and I don’t think the trajectory right now with our faculty size is actually sustainable.”

Though still record-breaking, this year’s freshman class of 7,494 was up only slightly from last year’s 7,367, which was the previous record, according to a university news release.

This crop of freshmen are also the university’s highest academic achievers in history, with an average high school GPA of 3.82 and ACT superscore of 26.5. 

The Honors College also welcomed its largest class ever at 1,045 students. They had an average GPA of 4.22 and ACT superscore of 30.5

Graduate student enrollment has also hit an all-time high at more than 6,700, Tate said. The previous record was 6,528 students in the fall of 2021.