DeKALB — Spring 2017 enrollment rates show a 5.5 percent decrease from spring 2016 enrollment numbers with 1,022 fewer enrollments.

This semester’s total enrollment is 17,497, a decrease from the 18,519 enrolled in spring 2016, according to data provided by Joe King, associate director of Institutional Communications.

“Spring enrollment numbers are always lower than fall numbers, primarily due to December graduates, but also students transferring or not returning because of finances, grades, personal reasons, etc.,” King said in an email.

New transfer enrollment this semester is 557, a 4.9 percent increase from 531 in the spring of 2016. The College of Law also experienced a 5.6 percent increase from last year when enrollment was 232.

King said he believes the number of transfer students has increased because NIU has been doing more marketing at local community colleges.

Overall, new undergraduate enrollment, which accounts for new freshmen, transfers and other new undergraduates, increased 2 percent this semester from 790 in spring 2016 to 806 enrollments this semester.

Enrollment was at about 19,000 students during the fall 2016 semester, a roughly 5 percent decrease from fall 2015.

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