

Goshen College enrollment, retention and diversity continue to rise
Goshen College enrollment figures show a total overall growth, including among incoming first-year students and graduate students, as well as greater retention and diversity.
Goshen College enrollment figures show a total overall growth, including among incoming first-year students and graduate students, as well as greater retention and diversity.
Goshen College President James E. Brenneman opened the 2014-15 school year with an invitation for students and employees to expand their understanding of the college’s core value of “global citizenship.”
Goshen College President James E. Brenneman opened the 2013-14 school year with an invitation to the campus to recommit themselves to being compassionate peacemakers.
Goshen College welcomed new and returning students back to campus, as classes began on Aug. 29.
Goshen College welcomed new and returning students back to campus, as classes began on Aug. 30. Fall 2010 enrollment statistics at Goshen College show a total head count of 960 students attending full or part time and taking courses, seeking graduate degrees or seeking degrees through Goshen's Division of Adult and External Studies (DAES).
Community colleges and public universities are expecting significant increases in enrollment this fall, but they are not the only educational institutions bucking the economic downturn.
Goshen College ranks in the top 4.5 percent of U.S. colleges and universities, according to Forbes magazine and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP).
Fall 2008 enrollment statistics at Goshen College show gains in the number of graduate students and a continued high retention rate, but a decline in first-year traditional students.
Enrollment, retention and the number of first-year students and minorities continue to rise at Goshen College, college officials said.
As the spring semester began, 934 students were enrolled in all programs at Goshen College compared with head counts of 870 for the spring semester in 2005-06 and in 2004-05, and 854 in 2003-04, according to Bill Born, vice president for student life and dean of students.