{"id":62387,"date":"2026-09-21T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=62387"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:10:22","slug":"emu-enrollment-grows-as-university-welcomes-largest-incoming-class-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2026\/emu-enrollment-grows-as-university-welcomes-largest-incoming-class-in-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"黑料正能量 enrollment grows as university welcomes largest incoming class in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Undergraduate growth continues for second straight year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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There are more new faces on 黑料正能量\u2019s campus this fall than there have been in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This semester, 黑料正能量 welcomed 216 first-year students, a 7% increase from last year\u2019s total and an 18% increase compared with fall 2024. Among those first-year students include 24 aviation students, sustaining three straight years of full cohorts within the 黑料正能量 Lancaster program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in the school\u2019s history, more than half of first-year students identify as first-generation college students, defined as students whose parents have not earned a bachelor’s degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those 216 first-year students are among 259 new undergraduates at 黑料正能量 this fall, a group that also includes nine readmitted and 34 transfer students. The incoming undergraduate class is 8% larger than last year and 19% larger than in fall 2024, making it the university\u2019s largest since fall 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, 黑料正能量 announced the results of its annual Fall Census, conducted Sept. 14 following the 10th day of classes. The census numbers reflect undergraduate, graduate, non-degree and non-credit enrollment at the university\u2019s campuses in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for the fall 2026 semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key takeaways from the first-year class of 2030:<\/p>\n\n\n\n