UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT 5,017

According to the first official figures given out this year, the enrollment of the University has passed the 5000 mark, and that in the College alone has reached 2500. Up to this date only rough estimates have been available. The exact figure for the entire University, excluding University Extension and the Summer School, is 5017; that for the College is 2504.

The College registration shows a return to normal, after the severe drop during the war, but is still somewhat short of the record of 2582 set in 1916-17. The reason for this is apparent from a glance at the figures. The Senior Class was heavily depleted by the war and is still very small, with only 276 members. The Junior and Sophomore Classes of 553 and 672 are fairly large, being swelled by the return to College after the war of many men who formerly belonged to this year's Senior Class, or even last year's. The Freshman Class with 537 is normal, though not unusually large; but the total of men spending their first year at the College is significantly big. For those registered as Unclassified are all newcomers to the College; they include men who transferred this year to Harvard from other institutions or were admitted on a special basis on account of war service. There are 272 Unclassified students, which brings the total of first-year men to 809.

Expect to Break 1916 Record Next Year.

This high figure almost, but not quite, offsets the smallness of the Senior Class. It is expected that in another year the College will have entirely recovered from the effects of the war and will run well ahead of its 1916 record.

The Graduate School of Business Administration, entering upon its 12th year, has a record-breaking attendance of 365, which is nearly 60 per cent. larger than the biggest enrollment in the past. The number of first-year men alone in the Business School exceeds the biggest enrollment hitherto recorded for the entire school.

At the Law School only the comparatively small size of the second and third-year classes, which still show the effects of the war, prevent the school from reaching a record figure, the first-year class having a phenomenal enrollment of 430. A total of 117 students are entered in the Engineering School in its first full academic year. Of these, however, not all are Undergraduates.

The effects of the war are still in evidence at the Dental School, although the enrollment is considerably greater than last year, especially in the entering class. By the number of students turned away from the Medical School, which has a limited enrollment, it appears that it, also, is entering upon an unusually successful year.