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Enrollment
The college has experienced gradual declines in enrollment since 2016/17. Part-time attendance is also rising, with over half of the student body taking fewer than six units each semester. High part-time enrollment means that more individuals must be enrolled, advised, and supported with services to reach the college’s targets for full-time equivalent students (FTES). During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020/21, more students were taking courses across multiple colleges within SDCCD, increasing the headcount but decreasing FTES.
The data presented here were reviewed and considered throughout the development of the Strategic Plan and are regularly discussed in governance groups and institutional planning processes. Most of these sources are updated annually; the most recent data available are included.
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City College Headcount Prior Year % Change City College FTES Prior Year % Change
2016/17 26,731
10,525
2017/18 25,638
-4.1% 10,123 -3.8%
Headcount is the number of individual students. Each student is counted once regardless of the number of courses in which the student enrolls. FTES is a student workload measure equal to 30 credit hours of enrollment, which is equal to 525 contact hours in an academic year. The values in these tables include both resident and non-resident FTES.
Data Source: SD City College Program Review Dashboard
Enrollment
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and health restrictions that prohibited on-campus activities, the majority of students enrolled in traditional on-campus face-to-face courses. The percentage of students enrolled in on-campus courses steadily decreased between 2016/17 and 2019/20 while the percentage of students enrolled online (or both on-campus and online) gradually increased from 20% in 2016/17 to 29% in 2019/20. In 2020/21 and 2020/22, over 90% of City College enrollments were in online courses.
CITY COLLEGE ANNUAL ENROLLMENT BY COURSE MODALITY 3
Enrollment is the number of registrations. When a student enrolls in multiple courses, each enrollment (or registration) is counted.
3 Data Source: SD City College Program Review Dashboard
