Part I in a series - Enrollment Q & A
ESL Enrollment
Q: How many students enroll in ESL courses at Douglas College?
A: In the last complete academic year, 2008-2009, the average number of students enrolled was 423.
Q: How many students do we have right now?
A: We currently have 807 course registrations, which means a minimum of 404 students.
Q: How many sections are running this Winter 2010 Semester?
A: 43 sections.
Q: How does our present enrollment compare to that of previous years?
A: It is lower than 2004/2005, when we had more than 485 each semester, but rising each year after that.
Q: Is ESL the largest department in the college?
A: Possibly so. In terms of course registrations divided by the number of courses a full-time student normally takes, ESL has consistently had the largest student full-time equivalent (FTE) in the college since 2004. This is a rough, unofficial estimate of FTE.
Q: What is total college enrollment?
A: In 2008-2009 there were 66,421 course registrations. If full-time students take an average of eight 3-credit courses per year, that's 8,303 FTE students. This is also a rough, unofficial estimate of FTE. Taking into account part-time students, the actual enrollment at Douglas is about 14,000.
Q: What percentage of the college's enrollment is ESL?
A: It is between 6 and 7%. In the 2004-2005 year it was 9%.
Q: How does this percentage compare to that of other large departments?
A: Psychology enrolls 6% and Nursing 5%.
Do these statistics raise other questions? Ask them in a comment to this post.
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This is very interesting stuff, Jonathan. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. There is one answer I don't totally understand, though. When you say, "It is lower than 2004/2005, when we had more than 485 each semester, but rising each year after that," do you mean that the number kept going up since 2004/5 until this year?
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's what I meant.
Thanks, Jonathan. That must mean that our numbers for this year are considerably lower than they've ever been before. Any guesses as to why that would be?
ReplyDeleteNo. That's not what I mean.
ReplyDeleteEvery year since 04/05 our numbers have increased. Last year was nearly back to 04/05 levels and this year we may exceed them.
The surprise for me was that, though we have expanded greatly in the past five years, we were not enrolling the largest number of students ever. 04/05 had a larger enrollment than 08/09.