ICCB Spring Enrollment Report and Parkland persistence data - 2011 to 2012

Illinois Community College Board 

FISCAL YEAR 2012 SPRING ENROLLMENT REPORT 

Headcount and Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Both Down from Last Year. 

Enrollments Remain Strong by Historical Standards. 

Community colleges report opening Spring term enrollment figures to the Illinois Community College Board using a brief web based survey. These figures reflect student enrollments as of the end of registration for the Spring 2012 semester B usually the 10th day of the term. 

Overall, short term statewide results of the fiscal year 2012 Spring enrollment survey show decreases from last year. Compared to the same term one year ago, statewide Spring 2012 headcount enrollments and full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments both decreased. FTE figures reflect the total number of credit hours being taken by students divided by 15 – the number of semester hours traditionally considered a full-time class load. The Spring 2012 semester headcount was 370,816 compared to 381,582 last year (a headcount decrease of 10,766 or -2.8 percent). The latest FTE count was 209,966 compared with 219,752 a year ago (an FTE decrease of 9,786 or -4.5 percent). 

Table 1 contains comparative statewide Spring tenth-day enrollments for the last five years. The latest Spring enrollments remain strong by historical standards. While down from recent record levels, Spring 2012 headcount and FTE enrollments are at the third highest level in the thirty-eight years that a separate Spring opening enrollment survey has been collected. Figure 1 on the next page illustrates a comparison of headcount and FTE trends from 2008 - 2012. 

SUMMARY OF OPENING SPRING ENROLLMENTS IN 

ILLINOIS PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES FROM 2008 TO 2012

	Spring 2008	Spring 2009	Spring 2010	Spring 2011	Spring 2012
Headcount	351,777	361,837	389,432*	381,582	370,816
Percent Change	-0.6%	2.9%	7.6%	-2.0%	-2.8%
FTE	193,874	202,804	224,076	219,752	209,966
Percent Change	1.0%	4.6%	10.5%	-1.9%	-4.5%

Parkland College Persistence Data

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