YSU breaks 15-semester enrollment losing streak

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

It’s only 41 more students, but it’s the first enrollment increase Youngstown State University has seen in five years.

YSU reported 12,361 students enrolled for spring semester, up 0.33 percent or 41 students from spring 2015 semester’s 12,320 students.

It’s the first semester-to-semester increase since spring 2011.

“We had gone 15 consecutive semesters, from one to the next, year to year, enrollment went down,” YSU President Jim Tressel said Tuesday morning on Vindy Talk Radio.

Read more about the figures in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.