Blinn College is nearing a third consecutive enrollment increase for the spring semester

This podcast contains comments from the February 20, 2025 Blinn College trustees meeting.Spring enrollment at Blinn College, with registration continuing for remaining four and eight week classes, is expected to exceed last spring.An update during February's meeting of Blinn's board of trustees shows 15,822 students. That's compared with 15,953 in 2024, 15,685 in 2023, and 15,167 in 2022.Compared with 2024's final spring numbers, 2025 spring enrollment is already higher at the RELLIS campus and the number of high school students taking dual credit classes.Trustees and administrators were pleased with the number of Waller High School students who are enrolled, which is Blinn's newest location. In a related item, trustees awarded a contract to design Blinn's first academic building in Waller. Currently, Blinn is using space at Waller High School and Waller Middle School.On the Bryan campus, where in 2015 there were more than 12,000 students, so far this spring the number is 3,982.Vice chancellor Becky McBride said 36 public universities, including Texas A&M, have increased the number of freshman students.Since A&M has put a freeze on undergraduate enrollment for the next five to seven years, McBride says they have strategies to recruit students who are not admitted to A&M.With registration continuing for remaining spring classes, Blinn has 3,966 online students, 3,540 at RELLIS, 2,631 high school students, 1,509 at the home campus in Brenham, and about 200 at other locations.Blinn trustees also received final enrollment numbers from the Christmas break minimester. That showed 2,152 students, which is 24 more compared to the year before.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the February 20, 2024 Blinn College trustees meeting.