{"id":142,"date":"2025-06-09T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:39:49","slug":"enrollment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1178\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/755\/2025\/07\/uwm-online-enrollment.jpg\" alt=\"A graph showing a steep increase in online course enrollment at UWM from 2003 to 2017, with two trend lines: one for students taking at least one online course, which rises sharply over time, and another for students taking only online courses, which increases gradually\" class=\"wp-image-661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/755\/2025\/07\/uwm-online-enrollment.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/755\/2025\/07\/uwm-online-enrollment-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/755\/2025\/07\/uwm-online-enrollment-1024x499.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/755\/2025\/07\/uwm-online-enrollment-768x374.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Online enrollment has shown consistent growth since 2003, although enrollment has gone down slightly from spring 2016 to spring 2017. Note the jagged pattern of online enrollment for students who combine online and face-to-face classes. Enrollment is lower in the fall, because new freshmen tend to take only face-to-face classes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-215\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/\">Online Program Toolkit<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/\">Program Administrators<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/program-administrators-responsibilities\/\">Program Administrators Responsibilities<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/state-authorization\/\">State Authorization<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/faculty-support\/\">Faculty Support<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/student-support\/\">Student Support<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/blended-courses\/\">Blended Courses<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/online-seed-funding\/\">Online Seed Funding<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/policies-and-forms\/\">Policies and Forms<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/new-program-development\/\">New Program Development<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/marketing\/\">Marketing<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/enrollment\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">Enrollment<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-administrators\/budget-planning\/\">Budget \/ Planning<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/ensuring-quality\/\">Ensuring Quality<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/research\/\">Research<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/program-council\/\">Program Council<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/academicaffairs\/online-program-toolkit\/uw-flexible-option-degree\/\">UW Flexible Option Degree<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":122,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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