The Daily Emerald’s Corey Hoffman has a good report on enrollment, here:
… According to the Board of Trustees meeting minutes from Sept. 16 and 17, 2,984 out-of-state students were projected to enroll in 2024. The actual enrollment was 2,536 students.
Although the out-of-state numbers are significantly lower than the projected numbers, there is still an increase in out-of-state enrollment from last year. In 2023, the number of enrolled non-resident students was 2,491. …
I can’t help but think those projections were a joke. Looking at pages 65-66 of the Board of Trustees materials (https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/consolidated-full-board-materials-sept-16-17-2024_final.pdf), the average annual change in non-resident new enrollees was 3.5%. So, of course, they projected growth of 19.8% for this year, perhaps based off of their best years in the past. Makes total sense! And so now that actual growth is only 1.8%, it’s a catastrophe.
I wonder if they believed the Big 10 would draw in a lot more students or if they thought they needed a lot more students to pay for the Big 10.