A TOTAL of 39,152 students have enrolled in UST for the first term of Academic Year 2023-2024 under a hybrid learning setup, lower than last year’s tally of 43,631 when there were more online classes, preliminary data showed.
The numbers can still change as the enrollment period is until Aug. 14.
According to data from the Office of the Registrar as of Aug. 9, the first day of classes, the UST student population consisted of 32,397 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs, 5,054 students in Senior High School, 1,361 students in Junior High School, and 340 students in the Education High School. The 39,152 total was 10 percent lower than last year’s.
The Faculty of Engineering continued to have the biggest enrollment turnout this year, with 4,082 students.
The Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Faculty of Pharmacy followed with 3,523 and 3,141 enrollees, respectively.
Lower turnouts were recorded in the Faculty of Civil Law (291 this year from 751 last year); Institute of Physical Education and Athletics (140 from 343); Conservatory of Music (291 from 467); Graduate School (1,179 from 1,595); UST-Alfredo M. Velayo College of Accountancy (1,869 from 2,465); College of Nursing (726 from 938);
College of Commerce (2,596 from 2,806); College of Education (1,217 from 1,435); College of Fine Arts and Design (1,773 from 1,899); College of Information and Computing Sciences (1,900 from 2,006); College of Rehabilitation Sciences (1,194 from 1,420); and the Faculty of Pharmacy (3,141 from 3,515).
The Senior High School tallied 5,054 students, down from 6,003 last year.
Freshmen enrollment down
First-year admissions saw a decline of 5.13 percent, as UST welcomed 11,987 freshmen in Academic Year 2023-2024, lower than last year’s 12,635.
The Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Faculty of Engineering had the most first-year students this year, with 1,246 and 1,229, respectively.
This academic year, UST will come closest to its pre-pandemic academic arrangement, as no courses will be exclusively conducted either online or on-site. Nyah Genelle de Leon with reports from Mabel Anne Cardinez
