Western Carolina University seeing post-Covid enrollment rebound

CULLOWHEE, N.C. (WLOS) — For the first time since the initial Covid year of 2020, total enrollment is rising at Western Carolina University.

Spring semester numbers are topping out above 10,700, which is 200 more students than in the same period last year.

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First-year admissions are going up as well. More than 2,100 enrolled this past fall, an enrollment second only to the inaugural year of the N.C. Promise program in 2018 with more than 2,200 students.

University leaders see enrollment trending upward.

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“We put ourselves in a good position for the spring, that we have rebounded to a steady enrollment, and we have for this fall....be back to even better post COVID,” Mike Langford, director of undergraduate admissions, said Thursday, Feb. 15.

WCU also said transfer student enrollment is up for four successive fall semesters and four successive spring semesters.