The official Tenth Day Count, taken on Sept. 10, showed stable enrollment at NIU.

The total enrollment for fall 2007 is 25,254, according to the Tenth Day Count. The 2007 count listed the total enrollment as 59 fewer than the fall 2006 count of 25,313, according to an NIU press release.

“The Enrollment Management Task Force and Enrollment Services work year round,” NIU President John Peters said at a University Council meeting on Sept. 12. “Every day they work on this and try to make sure our resources match our enrollment.”

The fall 2007 undergraduate enrollment is 18,495, just 12 fewer than the 2006 enrollment of 18,507, according to an NIU press release.

The fall 2007 freshman enrollment is 3,024, which is within NIU’s target of between 3,000 to 3,050, according to the press release.

However, the total transfer student enrollment came in 114 students above the target at 2,164, according to the press release. The target for transfers was 2,000 to 2,050.

NIU declined acceptance to between 400 and 500 qualified students to maintain stable enrollment, Peters said.

Enrollment Services, specifically Brent Gage, assistant vice provost for Enrollment Services, and his staff, have been working to inform NIU applicants about the importance of applying early. The department’s efforts are effective as students are applying earlier, Gage said in the press release.

The graduate school enrollment dropped 170, from 2006 to 6,012, according to the press release.

“Students constantly give NIU high marks for protecting quality-indicators such as class size and student-faculty ratio, and we want to continue that tradition,” Peters said in the press release.