Fall 2018 Enrollment Report

Table 1a

Headcount History by School, 2014-2018

Total Fall 2018 headcount enrollment is 6,777, an increase of 1.1% from Fall 2017. Increases in Graduate School certificate, graduate Pharmacy, Day Law, and professional Nursing program enrollments are partially offset by lower enrollments in undergraduate Medical and Research Technology, graduate Law and Nursing, Evening Law, and professional Pharmacy programs.

Table 1b

FTES History by School, 2014-2018

Total Fall 2018 FTES enrollment is 6,605, an increase of 1.0% compared with Fall 2017.  All schools, excepting Dentistry, Law, and Social Work, increased in FTES enrollment from Fall 2017 to Fall 2018.  Over a five-year period, the total FTES enrollment at UMB has increased by 6.0%.

Table 2

Headcount Change by Degree

The increase in enrollment for Fall 2018 is largely attributable to increases in the Nursing Practice DNP (97), Graduate School Post-Baccalaureate Certificate programs (51), day-time Law JD (23), and Professional Medicine MD (13) programs.  The PharmD program showed the largest loss in enrollment between 2017 and 2018, with a decrease of 30 students (4.8%), while the Graduate School MS programs saw a decrease in enrollment of 15 (1.6%), the BS in Medical and Research Technology program decreased by 15 (35.7%), evening Law JD decreased by 14 (11.5%), Law LLM decreased by 11 (28.2%), and Law MSL decreased by 10 (9.5%). 

Table 3

Projected vs. Actual Headcount by Degree

Fall 2018 enrollment is 1.0% higher than projected.  Nursing Practice (DNP) exceeded projections by 60 students (11.8%) and the Graduate School Post-Baccalaureate Certificate programs exceeded projections by 38 students (54.3%).  The only other program that exceeded projections by more than 10% was Public Health, with 7 (14.6%) more students than projected.  The BS program in Medical and Research Technology's actual enrollment was 17 (38.6%) lower than projected, while Law LLM actual enrollment was 7 (20%) lower than expected.

Table 4

FTES Change by Degree

Table 5

Headcount by Gender

Women comprise 73.5% of the total Fall 2018 enrollment, with higher enrollments in all programs.

Table 6‌

Headcount by Attendance Status

Full-time students account for 76.8% of headcount enrollment for Fall 2018. Programs that have more than 50 percent part-time students include the Graduate School MS and certificate programs, Law MSL, Pharmacy MS, Clinical Research Certificate, Public Health MPH, and Nursing DNP and Certificate programs.

Table 7

Headcount and Percentage by Race/Ethnicity

Race and ethnicity categories are consistent with Federal Reporting standards.  Total Minority is the sum of the American Indian, Asian, Black, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and Multi-Racial categories. Table 7b provides percent of headcount by race/ethnicity.
Table 8a

Headcount by Residency

Maryland residents account for 76.3% of the total enrollment for Fall 2018. The undergraduate programs have the highest percent with 95.4% in-state residents. The Research & Scholarship Doctorate programs have the lowest at 29.1%.
‌‌Table 8b

Headcount by Tuition Rate

The in-state tuition rate was paid by 80.6% of students in Fall 2018.  The undergraduate programs have the highest percent with 96.3% in-state tuition rates. The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate programs have the lowest at 59.3%.

Table 9

Headcount by Degree Status

Overall, 98.8% of students are seeking degrees or certificates. Most non-degree students are concentrated within the Nursing DNP (42) and BSN programs (15), the Graduate School MS programs (11), and the MPH program (6).

‌Table 10

Headcount by Class and Type

Table 11a

Graduate School Enrollment by Program

‌‌‌Table 11b

Graduate School Enrollment by Gender

Table 11c

Graduate School Enrollment by Race

Table 12

Professional Practice Students by Class and Gender

Table 13

Enrollment by Region and Maryland County

Table 14

Enrollment by State

‌‌Table 15‌

International Student Enrollment by Degree