Bataille also pointed to the growth in enrollment in the WSU Honors College, which provides students with enriched educational opportunities. There are 428 new freshmen enrolled in Honors, compared with 330 a year ago. Total Honors enrollment has increased nearly 20 percent from 1,032 in 1997 to 1,200 this year. Total enrollment throughout WSU's multicampus system grew by 461 students from 20,537 in the fall 1997 term. The largest increase was at WSU Vancouver where enrollment has risen nearly 14 percent from a year ago to 1,514, up 183 students.
Ethnic enrollments are higher.
On the Pullman campus the number of students of color increased 7 percent to 2,351 or 13.1 percent of the total enrollment, the highest ever. Enrollment in the Extended Degree Program, which serves students through distance education technologies, has shown a 16 percent increase in full-time equivalent enrollment, from 304 FTE in 1997 to 352 this year. EDP enrollment is counted in the total registrations on the Pullman campus.