Overall, enrollment in Pennsylvania's state university system, or PASSHE, fell 2.2%, to 82,688, but freshmen climbed 3.4% to 16,203.
Pennsylvania’s state universities continued their more than decade-long decline in overall enrollment this fall but saw the number of new students increase for the second consecutive year.“More freshmen and transfer students are choosing state system universities, and that is a very encouraging trend for the state-owned universities and our efforts to address worker shortages in Pennsylvania,” said Cynthia Shapira, chair of the system’s board of governors.
“If we’re able to work closely with the General Assembly to come up with more affordable four-year pathways, I think we can grow substantially,” he said. “If we can’t, at the cliff, we’re going to get smaller probably.”the system has frozen
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