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Graduate Program Enrollment Trends Since Fall 2021

Over the past few days Turner Business has explored recent enrollment trends involving the Turner College's undergraduate business majors. This post shifts gears a bit by examining enrollment numbers in the Turner College's graduate business programs and in the TSYS School's graduate programs in computer science. As shown in the table below, the Turner College's MBA program has experienced some enrollment issues lately, with the number of MBA students dropping by 11.1% from Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. This trend has been the subject of analysis in previous posts here at Turner Business. Offsetting this decline has been the tremendous growth in recent years of the Turner College's MS in organizational leadership. The number of students in that program has grown by 131.7% since Fall 2021, bringing overall growth across these two programs to 65.8% since Fall 2021.


Enrollment in the TSYS School's graduate programs has mirrored that of the business programs, only at a smaller scale. For example, the MS program in applied computer science has seen a 3.1% decline in enrollment since Fall 2022, while the cybersecurity program has grown by 85% since Fall 2021. Across both programs enrollment has grown by 20.7% since Fall 2021. Lastly, graduate program enrollment across CSU's campuses has also been a mixed bag. Tremendous growth, exceeding 125%, has been seen in communication, elementary education (MAT), public health and special education. At the same time, educational leadership, nursing, robotics engineering and teacher leadership have each experienced losses in enrollments of 40% or more. When all of the programs above - communication through teacher leadership - are aggregated, there were 450 students enrolled during Fall 2021 and 572 students enrolled during Fall 2025, representing an increase in enrollment of 27.1%. 

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