Blinn College spring enrollment is higher district wide but is at a record low on the Bryan campus

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting.Records are not available for the last time that Blinn College's largest campus by enrollment was not in Bryan. But that was the case during the spring semester.Headcount in Bryan was 3,980. Ten years ago, Bryan enrollment was more than 12,000.Blinn's largest spring enrollment was the number of online students at 4,236. After Bryan, the third largest presence was the RELLIS campus location at 3,523.By percentage, the number of high school students taking dual credit classes showed the largest increase compared with the year before at 19.65 percent. That was followed by RELLIS at 12.30 percent. By comparison, headcount at the Bryan campus fell 15.82 percent compared with the spring 2024 semester.Vice chancellor Becky McBride repeated at June's board of trustees meeting, what she has said for years about the impact of more students going to four year universities.McBride said one Blinn program now at the RELLIS campus is returning to Bryan, to make more room for students at RELLIS affiliated with one of the Texas A&M system alliance of regional universities.McBride also shared continuing recruitment efforts. One focus is bringing back former Blinn students. McBride said former students have received a combined one million e-mails and 3,000 text messages.Blinn's district wide enrollment for the spring 2025 semester was 16,076. That's 125 more students compared with a year ago and is within 1,000 students of a record high that was set in 2020, just before the start of the pandemic.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials at the June 17, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting.