Headcount and FTE Enrollment

There are two common ways of reporting enrollment: headcount, or the number of students actually enrolled, and full-time equivalent (FTE), a calculation indicating how many students would be attending if all were enrolled full time.

At USD, one FTE undergraduate student is defined as 15 credits, one FTE graduate (non-law) student as 12 credits, and one FTE law school student as 14 credits. Based on these calculations, the headcount and FTE (rounded) enrollment for Fall 2007 are as follows: