Some Thoughts on Undergraduate Expansion

Sources for Figure 5

Year Cornell Penn Columbia Harvard Brown Yale Princeton Dartmouth
2002 13725 9917 6929 6649 5774 5339 4779 4084
2003 13655 9917 6970 6597 5707 5354 4837 4098
2004 13625 10047 7082 6562 5752 5319 4801 4079
2005 13515 10422 7252 6613 5903 5409 4906 4110
2006 13562 10138 7306 6715 5778 5333 4923 4085
2007 13510 10163 7231 6648 5789 5311 4918 4164
2008 13846 10275 7418 6678 5846 5277 4981 4147
2009 13931 10337 7665 6655 5989 5275 5113 4196
2010 13935 10394 7934 6641 6076 5310 5220 4248
2011 14167 10301 8103 6622 6096 5349 5249 4194
2012 14261 10324 8274 6610 6109 5405 5336 4193
2013 14393 10319 8365 6671 6158 5430 5323 4276
2014 14453 10406 8559 6636 6243 5477 5391 4289
2015 14315 10406 8613 6634 6305 5532 5402 4307
2016 14566 10468 8712 6645 6560 5472 5400 4310
2017 14907 10496 8868 6699 6653 5743 5394 4410
2018 15182 10605 8931 6722 6738 5964 5428 4417
2019 15043 10448 9001 6716 6820 6092 5422 4459
2020 14743 9960 8842 5212 7043 4703 5267 4170

All are Fall semester overall headcount enrollment figures, except that Penn figures refer to full-time undergraduates only, as older headcounts of all Penn undergraduates are not readily available.

Links to sources

Brown: https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/factbooks/historical-student-enrollment

Columbia 2002-11: http://web.archive.org/web/20120927063239/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/opir_enrollment_history_1.htm
Columbia 2011-20: https://opir.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Statistical%20Abstract/opir_enrollment_history.pdf

Cornell: http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/student-enrollment

Dartmouth: https://www.dartmouth.edu/oir/data-reporting/factbook/enrollment.html

Harvard 2002-11: https://oir.harvard.edu/historical-fact-books
Harvard 2011-20: https://oir.harvard.edu/fact-book/enrollment

Penn 2002-14: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php
Penn 2015-19: http://web.archive.org/web/20160415000000*/http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts
Penn 2020: https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts
Note: Penn figures here refer to full-time undergraduates, as older headcounts of all undergraduates are not readily available.

Princeton 2002-19: https://registrar.princeton.edu/enrollment#datasets
Princeton 2020: https://www.princeton.edu/meet-princeton/facts-figures

Yale 2002-11: http://web.archive.org/web/20130524121437/http://oir.yale.edu/factsheet-archive
Yale 2012-20: https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/w001_enroll_sum_2021_vf_111020.pdf