Division of Enrollment Management
A Â鶹¾«Ñ¡staffer and her dog helped add excitement to the Golden Flashes football home opener with a fuzzy, fantastic halftime show.
In its 2024 Best Colleges analysis of more than 700 four-year colleges, Money ranked Â鶹¾«Ñ¡as the most affordable college in Ohio.
More students have made the commitment to seek a degree from Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ and launch their futures as a Golden Flash. The university is celebrating the rise in Kent Campus enrollment for the first time in 10 years along with another strong freshman class and improved retention rates on both the Kent and Regional Campuses.
Future Flash Days, when admitted students and their families visit the Kent Campus, enjoyed another successful year for 2023. Nearly 1,300 students from 24 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, experienced what it is like to be a Golden Flash.
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ is proving that it is the place to be for fall 2023 with a record-breaking number of applications, a record-breaking number of students who have been accepted for admission into the university and a record-breaking number of students who have made deposits to confirm their attendance in the fall.
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Class of 2026 has arrived on the Kent Campus in strong numbers – 4,251 to be exact – an increase of nearly 7% over the previous year, the largest class since before the pandemic and the eighth largest incoming class in the university’s 112-year history.
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ is excited to be a part of the Ohio College Comeback Compact, an innovative program to help students who left college with debt but without a degree to continue their education. Â鶹¾«Ñ¡is collaborating with seven public colleges and universities in Northeast Ohio to reach out to these students and provide a path back to higher education while reducing or eliminating their debt.
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Class of 2025 arrives with a strong record of classroom success, boasting an all-time high GPA of 3.5. These newest Golden Flashes arrive 3,982 strong, an increase of more than 4% from a year ago.
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ President Todd Diacon announced a massive, first-of-its-kind new student aid program that focuses on getting even more Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Golden Flashes to graduation, and beyond.
Get ready to soar! I am writing to share exciting information about our 2021 Fall Semester.