Summer semester on-campus enrollment at SIUC is down 4.2 percent from last year, a change the office of admissions and records attributes to decreased undergraduate enrollment.

This is the fourth year in a row summer undergraduate enrollment has declined. Enrollment has fallen 12 percent since 1992 when 1,089 more undergraduates were enrolled here.

In a memo sent Wednesday to President John Guyon and Provost Benjamin Shepherd, from admissions and records director Roland Keim, on-campus summer enrollment was reported to have decreased by 591 students this year, from 8,430 to 7839.

Advertisement

Keim’s memo said the drop in on-campus enrollment primarily is a result of decreases in new first-time freshmen, re-entries and undergraduate continuing students.

Off-campus enrollment increased this year by 110, from 2,930 to 3,040, according to figures included with the memo.