Colleges with record incoming class sizes for fall 2025

[Anonymous]

I’ll start: Pitt

“…A record number of incoming first-year students” recently booted non first-years from a dorm they were already assigned to so the school can make good on their guaranteed housing for first-years (who are eligible).

I’m sure all the schools that are able will take on more students to help stave off budget cuts as much as possible with all the grant and international student issues. I also wonder if big state flagship schools continue to grow in popularity.

[Anonymous]

More overcrowded. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Yay more congested classes, less housing, more students per advisor, more competition for summer research, overflowing public spaces. This is so exciting!

[Anonymous]

So glad my kid declined Pitt. We were afraid of this.

[Anonymous]

Sounds miserable.

[Anonymous]

Federal research dollars cut, economic uncertainty, increased job loss, tanking stock market-universities have to make up the revenue somehow.

[Anonymous]

i think stanford added more students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i think stanford added more students

They're increasing the size slowly over the next decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll start: Pitt

“…A record number of incoming first-year students” recently booted non first-years from a dorm they were already assigned to so the school can make good on their guaranteed housing for first-years (who are eligible).

I’m sure all the schools that are able will take on more students to help stave off budget cuts as much as possible with all the grant and international student issues. I also wonder if big state flagship schools continue to grow in popularity.

While Brackenridge is being converted into a freshman dorm, the students who had room assignments in that building are not losing on campus housing entirely, they’re just being reassigned to different dorms or apartments. Granted, many of those locations are less central than Brackenridge, but there are several apartment options among them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll start: Pitt

“…A record number of incoming first-year students” recently booted non first-years from a dorm they were already assigned to so the school can make good on their guaranteed housing for first-years (who are eligible).

I’m sure all the schools that are able will take on more students to help stave off budget cuts as much as possible with all the grant and international student issues. I also wonder if big state flagship schools continue to grow in popularity.

While Brackenridge is being converted into a freshman dorm, the students who had room assignments in that building are not losing on campus housing entirely, they’re just being reassigned to different dorms or apartments. Granted, many of those locations are less central than Brackenridge, but there are several apartment options among them.

None of the Pitt dorms are very far from the center of campus. The new ones up the hill do require a shuttle bus ride for convenience. But I'd assume they are nicer, being much newer.

Breckenridge was not a prized dorm in my day as a Pitt student. It's just close to everything.

[Anonymous]

Pitt’s record-breaking incoming class is back in the news.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/hundreds-incoming-pitt-students-be-housed-off-campus-hotel/CSMWNQHIVNBCZNFBUS4NNG23II/

[Anonymous]

Princeton has been adding every year.

[Anonymous]

U Miami. DD's friend, an incoming freshman, was placed in off campus housing because of the lack of available space in the dorms.

[Anonymous]

It happens.

VT had this issue a few years back and had to house students in hotels.

Northwestern over yielded for their freshman class last year, with overcrowded dorms and no waitlist movement. The next year, they are supposedly pulling off the waitlist.

Some years everyone seems to accept a school. Pitt probably just had an over yield year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Princeton has been adding every year.

Yeah- but they built a bunch of new dorms. They have been building them long before this. We saw some of the ones coming online back in 2022
. They had plenty of land for it