re: Ole Miss and Miss. State's fall enrollment #s are in

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Is this true?

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Yes, its true. Ole Miss posters (and the school, apparently) include the medical school in Jackson, as well as a few smaller satellite campuses. State is bigger as a campus. There are more college students in Starkville than there are in Oxford.

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I'm adding UAH and UAB to Alabama's numbers. Approximately 60,000.

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Same with Arkansas. The entire System (which includes the medical school in Little Rock and a second branch of the law school at UALR) is about 60,000.

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Is this true? If so, I'm adding UAH and UAB to Alabama's numbers. Approximately 60,000.

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It's a bit different since UAB and UAH are seperate entities. Ole Miss was 19.1 k in Oxford last year. State was 19.5k

Also, they get really pissed when you point it out, which is why I do.

MSU's numbers are up because they are throwing the cash at students, especially Alabama students. They are all over my son like white on rice, and have offered him twice the amount Alabama and Auburn have....plus they are also about $6000 cheaper per year than the AL schools. And their scholarship scores are lower so they are a good choice for kids that can't hit the 33 Auburn is requiring but still want to go to a quality engineering program.

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That'd be a 21 and a 3.0 for you assuming you aren't a Mississippi resident.

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Look LSU isn't Harvard, but that is a joke. Regional schools in LA have higher standards.

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LSU doesn't count LSUS, LSUA, LSUE, but it does include the med school that is located in New Orleans. It's not like that's a spike in enrollment anyways

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Arkansas has always been the largest school in the state, so I guess we've never felt any need to pad the numbers. A few schools do this consistently, which strikes me as strange.

We have 300 or so medical students in Fayetteville, a mile from the main campus, but they aren't even included in the reported "University of Arkansas" enrollment. They are a part of UAMS. Their campus is officially UAMS-Northwest.

That's probably why most college publication websites use undergrad #s when reporting enrollment. Harder to fudge those, but some still do.

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Regional schools in LA have higher standards.

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Cool. Again, Ole Miss doesn't set their standards. The state of Mississippi does and forces them to be that low because of the dumbasses we have in our public schools. State and Ole Miss want to raise their standards drastically but the state won't allow it.

Admission standards =/= education value of an institution

I'm curious about fundraising. If you count several branch campuses as "University of ________", do you also include their fundraising and endowments in your official numbers?

UAMS probably raises $40-50 million per year on their own, but we don't just add it to the pool of "University of Arkansas" fundraising. It benefits that campus, its infrastructure and research and is reported as such.

It just strikes me as inflating and obscuring the reality. In actuality, what percentage of UMMC students went to State undergrad? But they are suddenly part of "Ole Miss"? It's just funny to me that they do it like that.

An enrollment of 27,287 is 1,375 more students than in fall 2014. The new freshman class accounts for 4,902 students, 310 more than last fall.

"Auburn University's outstanding academic programs, faculty and student body continue to attract record numbers of prospective students to our campus," said Cindy Singley, director of University Recruitment. "Combined with the spirit of the Auburn Family and the Auburn community, they want to be a part of it, too."

The new freshman class boasts an average ACT score of 27.3 and an average high school GPA of 3.83. Fifty-nine percent of the new class is from Alabama, while 41 percent is from out-of-state.

At the undergraduate level, enrollment is 21,786, an increase of 1,157 students from last year. Enrollment in post-baccalaureate programs, which includes professional students in the Harrison School of Pharmacy and College of Veterinary Medicine, as well as graduate students in other programs, is 5,501, which is 218 more students than last year.

Bigger doesn't mean better, ND has 8K enrollment.