Middle Tennessee enrollment expected to reach 23,000 this fall

MTSU could reach 23,000 students this fall, and enrollment may increase as much as 3 percent by fall 2006, said Bob Glenn, vice president for student affairs and vice provost for enrollment management. Campus facilities have not yet reached their maximum capacity, so the school can continue to grow, he said.

However, if enrollment continues to rise, the university will have to hire more faculty, Glenn said.

“So we can’t admit more students then the state can give us money to hire faculty to teach,” he said. “That is why we manage our growth.”

The school had received almost 11,000 undergraduate admissions applications as of May 31, and about a third of those had been accepted. The deadline for fall 2005 admissions applications is July 1.