August 25, 2014
Faculty and staff welcomed students with water, apples and bananas to campus. Although student enrollment continues to increase, class sizes remain small.
The numbers:
- 34,000-plus students are expected on campus this fall, the sixth year of record enrollment and eighth consecutive year of growth.
- 67 percent of Iowa State classes have 29 or fewer students.
- 5,600 entering students attended orientation in June to help with their transition to college life.
- 70 percent of direct-from-high school students are expected to participate in a learning community this fall.
- The mean class section size is 35 students.
- 88 percent of student credit hours are taught by faculty.
- Student/faculty ratio is approximately 19:1.
- 105 new tenured or tenure-track faculty will join Iowa State this fall.