Fall 2009 enrollment up at Indiana State University

Indiana State University's fall headcount enrollment is 10,534, an increase of 77 students from fall 2008.

That represents the first overall enrollment increase at ISU in seven years, officials report.

Enrollment is up among new freshmen, transfer students and graduate students, and not only are more Indiana residents choosing Indiana State, so are more out-of-state and international students, according to the university registrar's official fall report, based on enrollment as of Sept. 1, the fifth day of classes.

"It is gratifying to see not only an increase in enrollment but an increase in virtually every category of student," said ISU President Daniel J. Bradley. "Indiana State continues to fill an important niche in higher education."

The greatest area of enrollment growth is among transfer students, whose numbers climbed by 174, a nearly 30 percent increase in just one year. More than 100 transfer students, or roughly one of every seven transfers, came from Ivy Tech Community College - Wabash Valley.