SUNY Enrollment by Student Level and Load Since 1948

Headcount Enrollment by Student Level and Student Load from the State University of New York provides annual counts of students by level and load status. The dataset covers the entire SUNY system from 1948 onward, aggregated by data.ny.gov. It was last updated in September 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term trends in Graduate Part-Time versus Graduate Full-Time enrollment to understand shifts in graduate study patterns.
• Model the relationship between Undergraduate Total and All Students Total over time to forecast overall system enrollment.
• Compare Undergraduate Full-Time and Undergraduate Part-Time counts across decades to study changes in student load demographics.
• Use the Year and All Students Part-Time columns to identify periods of significant growth in part-time student populations.

Strengths

• Annual data points spanning from 1948, providing over 75 years of historical coverage
• Includes 10 distinct columns for granular analysis of student level and load status

Limitations

• Exact row count and sample size are unknown, limiting assessment of data completeness
• Data is aggregated to the SUNY system level, obscuring campus-specific enrollment patterns

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Time Range

1948 onward

Freshness

Last updated in September 2025.

Geography

State University of New York (SUNY) system