There are nearly 1,800 more students enrolled this fall than in 2021 across seven public and private universities and colleges in San Antonio.
The year-over-year growth was most pronounced in the Alamo Colleges, which gained 2,274 students more than last fall across its five campuses — San Antonio College, Northwest Vista College, Northeast Lakeview College, Palo Alto College and St. Philips College. That total was about 3.5 percent higher than in the fall of 2021.
The pandemic left prospective students facing two options, UTSA President Taylor Eighmy said last summer, summarizing the choice as between accruing more debt to start or return to college, or finding a job to work and earn a wage. “Our freshman class is the biggest it’s ever been,” said Kimberly Espy, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. “Our retention is also at 80 percent, so we’ve hit - between first year and second year - we’ve really hit the national benchmark.”
“COVID has taught us there’s lots of different ways we can connect with people,” McLelland said. “We are still having that flexibility of online and just different ways of opening the campus and making sure that students can find us and get to us.”The Alamo Colleges reached an enrollment 66,342 this fall, reversing a steady decline since the start of the pandemic but still short of the 67,774 students the district had in the fall of 2019.
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