Spring enrollment at Southern Illinois University Carbondale mirrors the decline in fall enrollment, but school officials say that was expected.
Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell says enrollment this spring is down 7.4 percent when compared to the spring semester of 2016. Fall enrollment declined 7.55 percent from the fall of 2015.
Overall, spring 2017 enrollment totaled 14,636 compared with 15,806 students enrolled in spring 2016.
Colwell adds spring enrollment is always lower than fall enrollment due to December graduation. He says there were 1,383 students scheduled to graduate in December, which correlates closely with the 1,351 difference in enrollment between the fall and spring semesters.