Arkansas Tech University preliminary fall 2025 enrollment is 9,090 students, a 4 percent increase as compared to one year ago.
ATU is serving 1,270 freshmen this fall, an 8 percent increase over fall 2024. Growth at Arkansas Tech in fall 2025 also includes a 13 percent increase in transfer students and a 6 percent increase in graduate students.
“I get the sense that we are entering a time when students have greater enthusiasm about their college experience and increased optimism about their future,” said Dr. Russell Jones, ATU president. “I’m looking forward to once again having more than 9,000 people on our campuses. As we build upon the momentum of our record-setting retention in 2024-25, I am confident that ATU will continue engaging, retaining and graduating individuals with great potential for success this year and in the years to come. It is a great time to be at Arkansas Tech.”
Among fall 2025 freshmen on the ATU campus in Russellville, the average high school grade point average is 3.53 and the average ACT score is 21. The most popular majors among first-time students at ATU in Russellville this fall include nursing, mechanical engineering, elementary education, business management and biology.
Ninety-three percent of ATU freshmen in fall 2025 are from Arkansas.
Eighty-three percent of ATU freshmen in Russellville earned an academic scholarship in support of their pursuit of higher education.
“Affordability is always at the forefront of our thoughts and actions,” said Jones. “Arkansas Tech was the only institution in the state that did not increase tuition in fall 2024, and with a modest 2.5 percent increase this fall, ATU has one of the two lowest tuition increases in Arkansas for fall 2025. At Arkansas Tech, 40 percent of our students are first-generation college students and 41 percent of our students come from low-income backgrounds. Those figures demonstrate both the importance of maintaining affordability and the great job our faculty and staff do in supporting student success. We will continue to seek institutional efficiencies and ensure that our constituents in the Arkansas River Valley and beyond can afford a high-quality Arkansas Tech education.”
Included in the ATU preliminary enrollment report is a 10 percent increase in non-concurrent students enrolled at ATU-Ozark Campus. ATU-Ozark is serving 2,045 students in fall 2025.
“The significant increases in enrollment at ATU-Ozark this year and in recent times are a credit to the leadership, the faculty, the staff, the students and the overall culture at our campus in Franklin County,” said Jones. “Chancellor Dr. Sheila Jacobs and her team are doing important work in career and technical education, and the opportunities provided through ATU-Ozark Campus are aligned with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ agenda of providing and emphasizing a greater variety of educational pathways. This includes our continued growth in providing high school students access to career and technical education through Arkansas Tech Career Center.”
Other Arkansas Tech units that experienced growth in fall 2025 include the ATU Department of Nursing, the ATU Department of Teaching and Educational Leadership, the ATU Department of Music, the ATU Department of Communication and Media Studies, the ATU School of Professional and Community Education, the ATU Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science, the ATU Department of Art and the ATU University Honors program.
ATU’s fall 2025 preliminary enrollment figures are based upon data following the 11th class day of the semester, which was Thursday, Sept. 4.
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