Early enrollment numbers for fall 2016 show an increase in students attending Tulsa Community College from the previous fall semester. Overall enrollment is up 2% for fall 2016 to 17,070 as compared to 16,702 from the first week of fall 2015. This reverses a trend of declining enrollment over the past seven years for the state’s largest two-year college. TCC serves nearly 28,000 students each year in credit courses.
A current snapshot shows the number of first time entering students is up 4% for fall 2016 to 4,146 compared to 3,992 from the first week of fall 2015. Early numbers also show TCC saw a large jump in the number of students earning college credit while still in high school. Concurrent enrollment increased 14% to 1,838 for fall 2016 as compared to 1,609 from the start of fall 2015. Historically, TCC is number one in the state of Oklahoma in concurrent enrollment. The enrollment numbers are not official numbers collected by the state later in the semester.
TCC also implemented on-time enrollment for fall 2016 where students were required to be enrolled in a class before it met for the first time. TCC is the first college or university in Oklahoma to adopt the policy change to help with student success. A report compiled by TCC officials showed a TCC student who enrolled after a class started was twice as likely to fail or withdraw from that class. Students who showed up after the 16-week classes had started had different options including 14-week and 8-week classes for the fall.