The Florida Board of Governors has just announced that student enrollment in the state's universities is up three percent from last year.
But there's are three exceptions to that growth -- FAMU, University of Florida, and the biggest drop of all -- the University of South Florida, which lost almost one percent of enrollment.
That means USF is no longer the 3rd largest university in Florida -- it's fourth, behind University of Central Florida (up four percent!), UF, Florida International University, and then USF.
Of course, bigger does not necessarily mean better -- and only UF, Florida State, and USF are "Research One" universities -- recognized for doing loads of groundbreaking research.
Here are the numbers:
Fall 2010 Fall 2011 % Change
USF 47,800 47,362 -0.9%
FAMU 13,277 13,207 -0.5%
FAU 28,390 29,304 3.2%
FGCU 12,038 12,655 5.1%
FIU 44,010 47,966 9.0%
FSU 40,764 41,557 1.9%
NCF 805 845 5.0%
UCF 56,338 58,698 4.2%
UF 50,116 49,785 -0.7%
UNF 16,320 16,368 0.3%
UWF 11,645 11,990 3.0%
Total 321,503 329,737 2.6%
