re: Ranking the SEC by Enrollment (Full-time Students)

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3. Mizzou--34,748

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Dammit, Zou. You have absolutely NO excuse to suck so badly as sports. Get your shite together...

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No. In fact, UF has been looking to reduce enrollment and were slowly trimming down the number of incoming freshman. However, I think with the budget problems, they have had to keep the numbers steady for the time being.

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A&M is trying to double the size of its engineering school in the next 10 years or so. 25 in 25, or take the engineering school which is currently at 11k and make it 25k by 2025.

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That's a neat building

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The ghosts walking in an out of it are neater, imo.

With the 25 in 25, A&M definitely expanding. One of the major positives is that there is plenty of real estate available for new buildings.

Also would not be suprised to see the Law School moved to the main campus.

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We're going to underachieve forever. Don't build our Tigers up, they'll only let you down.

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Had we stayed in the Big 12 I would agree, but I think the SEC move is our final chance to finally meet our potential

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quote: 8. Kentucky--28,094 9. Tennessee--27,523 These two kind of surprised me. Figured they would both be larger.

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UK used to be much larger. The UK system once included 13 campuses around the state; Lexington was the main campus and 12 additional locations functioned as a feeder system of community colleges for the Commonwealth's 7 large regional universities.

The Lexington Community College, located in the heart of UK, served as a "dummy campus" for the university. If you graduated from a high school in Kentucky, you could attend LCC automatically. The idea was to remediate (a.k.a., weed out) students whose potential was lagging behind their age group and to make them ready for higher level education. Approximately 11,000 students attended LCC. UK's enrollment, including LCC once topped 34,000.

All that ended in 1997 when the Legislature decided to create the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). UK lost all of the community college campuses, including LCC. It was physically moved across town to a brand new campus and renamed Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

KCTCS was expanded to 16 locations and now serves approximately 120,000 students as a stand-alone entity. UK is bouncing back in enrollment, reaching nearly 29,000 this Fall.

A campus-wide building project, including many new dorms, should push enrollment to approximately 37,000 within the next 5 years. I doubt Lexington could handle more than this.