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Metric Chart: Graduate Student Enrollment. 2023 Goal: 3% Increase Every Year. Fall 2017 baseline: 7,863. Fall 2018 progress: 8,058. Fall 2019 progress: 8,714. Fall 2020 progress: 10,610. Fall 2023 goal: 9,389.
Tactics
Strategically grow graduate and postdoctoral populations
FSU will strategically grow its graduate programs by focusing on doctoral students in STEM and research-intensive disciplines and by identifying key growth opportunities for master’s-level students.
Improve recruitment, retention, and support for graduate students and postdocs
In addition to using technology to identify top researcher and graduate students, FSU will be assessing the competitiveness of our award packages relative to national peers and finding new external resources to fund those increases.
Leverage technology and analytics to meet strategic priorities
FSU is expanding its use of data and analytics to identify, track, enroll, and retain top graduate students by using Graduate School resources to assist academic programs in their marketing and communication efforts.
Activities and Accomplishments
- Florida State University has seen a 22% increase in graduate student enrollment in Fall 2020, far surpassing its goal of 3% in annual growth. The Graduate School experienced a rise in enrollment in 56% of its academic plans, including double-digit increases in 41 programs. This Fall, 3,442 new graduate students enrolled, boosting FSU’s total number of graduate students to 10,610, the highest it’s been ever.
- FSU strengthened its Preeminent Research University standing by increasing the number of post-doctoral scholars to 254 in Fall 2019, a 10% increase over two years.
- FSU graduate students received $3.4 million in external funding during the 2019-20 academic year, $3.9 million in 2020-2021, and $5.2 million in 2021-2022.
Outcomes