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CSCU reports spring 2025 enrollment rebound to nearly 64,000 students

2525048 · March 7, 2025
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System officials reported a spring 2025 credit-bearing headcount of about 63,906 across Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, with increases driven by traditional and concurrent enrollment and notable growth at Western and CT State.

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system reported 63,906 credit-bearing students for the spring 2025 semester, a system official said at the March meeting of the Board Committee on Academic and Student Affairs.

Dr. Lloyd Blanchard, the presenter of the enrollment and completions report, told regents the system’s spring-to-spring enrollment rose about 4% overall and described gains both among traditional students and in concurrent (dual) enrollment programs.

Blanchard said about 27,000 students were enrolled at the system’s universities, roughly 34,399 at CT State (the consolidated community college system), and nearly 2,000 at Charter Oak State College (Charter Oak’s final census will be reported after its March 31 census date). He said systemwide increases remain positive even if concurrent-enrollment growth is removed — for example, Western’s…

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