{"id":11162,"date":"2018-10-22T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2018-10-22T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:52:18","slug":"uc-san-diegos-enrollment-hitting-record-38798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11162","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego&#8217;s enrollment hitting record 38,798"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ollege enrollment has been sliding nationally, but you wouldn\u2019t know it to look at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The campus added nearly 2,200 students this fall, pushing enrollment to a record 38,798, a figure that\u2019s far higher than campus executives expected.<\/p>\n<p>Enrollment has soared by about 10,600 over the past decade, making UC San Diego one of the fastest growing schools in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The boom has been fueled by population growth in California, and the state&#8217;s success in preparing high school students to enter college. The University of California system also has been recruiting more transfer students.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod\" data-v-ntidd=\"1069627\" data-adloader-networktype=\"nativo\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.nativo.init\" data-load-type=\"method\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_nt\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>UC San Diego was expected to expand this fall. The UC has been guiding students to its San Diego and Irvine campuses, which have lots of room to expand.<\/p>\n<p>But UC San Diego officials recently announced that they had under-estimated demand. About 1,200 more freshmen than anticipated enrolled this fall. The boom forced the university to squeeze extra students into university housing.<\/p>\n<p>Relief is about two years away. The campus only recently began building a $627 million complex that will add 2,000 beds for students, as well as faculty and classroom buildings.<\/p>\n<p>UC San Diego and the University of California Board of Regents have struggled to accurately forecast growth.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the university came up with a long range plan that called for expanding the school\u2019s enrollment to 29,900 from roughly 25,000. The Regents reviewed and approved the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>But UC San Diego quickly hit that number and has continued to experience rapid expansion. This is the sixth consecutive year that the university has reported enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, the campus sent the Regents\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/regents.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regmeet\/july18\/f8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new proposal<\/a>\u00a0that calls for expanding enrollment to 42,400 by 2035. The plan will go before the board next month.<\/p>\n<p>If the university continues growing at its current rate, it could blow past 42,400 within a couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ollege enrollment has been sliding nationally,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11163,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}