Kennesaw State University announced this week that its combined undergraduate and graduate enrollment for the fall semester is 45,152 students, and all-time high, an the fifth year in a row that enrollment has gone up.
That makes KSU the third-largest university in the state, behind the University of Georgia and Georgia State University, and reflects 4.4 percent overall enrollment growth since the fall of 2022, according to a release.
The rise in the number of students represents an increase of 4.4% over Fall 2022, which includes a 4.1% increase in undergraduate and a 7% growth in the number of graduate students attending KSU.
More than 8,600 freshmen and freshmen transfer students are part of that new enrollment, a 15.7 percent increase from last year.
The number of first-generation students—those whose parents do not have a college degree—also has gone up by 5 percent and represents 38.3 percent of the KSU student body.
Female students are 50.6 percent of the student body, and 49.4 percent are males. African-American students make up 26 percent, and Hispanic and Latino students comprise 15 percent, according to the KSU release.
In 2018, KSU’s enrollment was 36,000 students, shortly after the institution’s merger with Southern Polytechnic State University. KSU grew to 43,000 by 2021, and kmore than 45,000 in 2023.
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