How Sam Stacks Up in Statewide Enrollment

Sam Houston State University's seven percent fall enrollment increase was the highest in Texas for any university of the same size or larger.

This is according to unofficial enrollment totals compiled by the SHSU Office of Institutional Research.

Other schools in the Texas State University System had mixed results. Texas State University -San Marcos, with 26,799 students, had an increase of two percent, and Lamar University, with 10,804 students, had a four percent increase.

The largest decrease in the state found by Institutional Research was eight percent at Sul Ross State, although the Sul Ross Rio Grande campus in Laredo increased by 11 percent to 1,056 students.

Totals for other universities not in the Texas State University System were also mixed. Stephen F. Austin State dropped to 11,287, or minus one percent, while Texas Woman's University increased to 10,750 students, or 11 percent.

Three of four University of Houston System schools stayed essentially the same, with an increase of four percent, to 11,408, at UH Downtown.

Both of the state's large universities were down slightly--the University of Texas by two percent to 50,403, and Texas A&M by one percent to 44,521.

Two smaller universities in the Sam Houston State University area--Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M, both recorded seven percent increases.

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SHSU Media Contact: Frank Krystyniak
Oct. 19, 2004
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