student enrollment
September 18, 2025
Enrollment remains high with first-year cohort
The 2025-26 first-year cohort brings 188 new students to Goshen College, with an additional 47 transfer students. Steve Wolma, vice president for enrollment management, said the main characteristics of this cohort include a higher average high school GPA and an 8% increase in the amount of people who have identified themselves as Mennonite. This has resulted in the distribution of 4% more Dean’s Academic Scholarships and double the number of Mennonites from the previous cohort. Enrollment remains high after the 2023-24 first-year cohort only brought in 156 students, the lowest number in over a decade. Since then, Wolma said, “We...