Enrollment and Tuition

110 students enrolled for the 1891 school year.

Enrollment reached 300 students. Tuition remained $20 but in-county students no longer receive free tuition.

Margaret Burke became the first woman to take a course at A&M College. She enrolled in a physics course.

Enrollment was over 500 students, and tuition increased to $45.

Enrollment declined by about 200 students due to enlistment in World War I.

After World War I, enrollment increased to over 1,000 students. Nearly 600 of those students came to NC State through the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) program.

Lucille Thomson of Wilmington, NC, became the first woman to fully enroll at NC State University. She studied electrical engineering from 1921 to 1923.

After a slight decline since 1918, enrollment at State College increased to 1,000 students.

Tuition increased to $60 for in-state students and $80 for out-of-state students.

The first degrees were conferred to women at NC State. The recipients were Jane McKimmon, BS in business administration; Charlotte Nelson, BS in education; and Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, MS in chemistry. Yarbrough was the first woman to graduate who completed all coursework while at NC State, and she was the first woman to earn a master's degree at NC State.

Twenty-one woman enrolled at State College for the 1928-29 academic year, which was twice as many as the previous year.

Enrollment dropped due to the onset of the Great Depression. Tuition climbed to $80 for in-state residents and $100 for out-of-state students.

Women were prohibited from entering freshmen and sophomore classes to boost enrollment at the Women's College in Greensboro. The restriction lasted until 1940.

Urgent appeals were made to increase women enrollment numbers in engineering courses as male students left to fight in World War II.

Enrollment declined to 800 students after peaking at around 2,500 in 1940. Much of campus became committed to training war personnel.

Fifty-eight women were enrolled at NC State, many taking advantage of special scholarships to provide engineering training to women so they could work in industry during World War II.

Veterans on the G.I. Bill caused a spike in enrollment with 5,000 students enrolled. New facilities were needed to accommodate the influx of students. Tuition was $90 for in-state residents and $288 for out- of state.

Tuition rose to $150 for in-state residents and $360 for out-of-state students. Enrollment passed 5,000 students.

State College admitted two African American graduate students into the School of Engineering: Robert Clemons and Hardy Liston. Clemons became the college's first black graduate. Liston withdrew and didn't complete his degree.

Tuition rose to $633 for out-of-state students.

The first four African American undergraduates enrolled at North Carolina State College: Ed Carson (electrical engineering), and Manuel Crockett (electrical engineering) enrolled in summer. Irwin Holmes (electrical engineering), and Walter Holmes (mechanical engineering, aerospace option) enrolled in fall.

Robert Clemons received a professional degree in electrical engineering (PREE) and became the first African American to graduate from NC State.

Women's enrollment passed 200 out of over 7,000 students enrolled, which was an increase of about 20%.

10,203 students entered NC State in the fall of 1966. Tuition was $357 for in-state and $782 for out-of-state students. There were over 1,000 women enrolled.

Women's enrollment reached almost 1,700 students.

African American student enrollment dropped below 200 since 1969. The drop led the university to increase recruitment efforts for African American students.

Consolidated University of North Carolina President William C. Friday announced that NC State may need to put a cap on enrollment unless more funding could be appropriated.

Enrollment for the fall term hit a new record of 13,800.

Tuition dropped from $357 to $330 for in-state students but increased to $1,876 for out-of state-students.

According to data from the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, NC State had 54 enrolled students who identified as Asian out of a student body of 16,903. The data did not distinguish U.S. nationals or international students within the Asian enrollment data.

African American student enrollment passed 1,000, women's enrollment passed 6,000, and 84 Latinx students were enrolled.

Despite new caps to stay within budget, enrollment continued to climb steadily.

Enrollment was 22,632 students in the fall of 1983, and 148 students (0.7%) identified as Hispanic.

After rising to $480 in 1983, tuition increased to $852. UNC System President C. D. Spangler supported students protesting the increase.

Enrollment of women passed 10,000, and tuition for in-state students increased again to $922.

Enrollment of African American students passed 2,000, Latinx students passed 200, and international students passed 1,000.

Total student enrollment stayed in the 27,000 range throughout the 1990s.

Tuition increased from $922 to $1044 for the start of the 1991 academic year.

Tuition dropped from $1,584 to $1,386 after increasing throughout the early 1990s.

A survey done by the Southern Education Foundation found that percentage enrollment of African American student remained the same for the past 20 years.

Tuition continued to rise over the next 5 years.

NC State students supported UNC students facing a tuition hike. Student body President Raj Mirchandani urged State students to join in solidarity with UNC, fearing NC State would be next.

In March of 2002, the Board of Governors passed an 8% raise in tuition. The tuition in fall of 2002 was $2,814 compared with $2,328 the previous year. Students protested the March 6th Board of Governors meeting.

While overall enrollment continued to grow, the number of non-white students enrolling began to decrease throughout the 2000s.

The Technician reported a total of 450 Latinx students enrolled at NC State as part of an editorial about diversity on campus.

Tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year was $5,153.

The 2015 NC State Hispanic/Latino Fact Sheet reported an increased in Latinx student enrollment with 1123 undergraduates and 364 graduate students.

The Office of Institutional Research and Planning reported that NC State had 2,282 enrolled students who identified as Asian out of a student body of 35,479. The data did not distinguish U.S. nationals or international students within the Asian enrollment data.