Some Thoughts on Undergraduate Expansion

Sources for Figure 7

Harvard Cornell A+S Dartmouth CC Princeton Yale Penn A+S Brown Barnard GS (HC) GS (FTE)
2002 6649 4390 4084 4141 4779 5339 6475 5774 2261 1485 888
2019 6716 4579 4459 4675 5422 6092 7567 6820 2682 2603 1998
% Growth 1 4 9 13 13 14 17 18 19 75 125

Figures are headcounts of full- and part-time students, except for the last column, which gives full-time equivalents, and for the Penn data, which are headcounts of full-time undergraduates only. All are for the Fall semester.

2002 Sources

Barnard: http://web.archive.org/web/20030212121219/http://www.barnard.edu/about/facts.html
Brown: https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/factbooks/enrollment
Columbia: http://web.archive.org/web/20040620233539/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/2003EnrlPTFT.htm
Cornell: http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/student-enrollment
Dartmouth: https://www.dartmouth.edu/oir/data-reporting/factbook/enrollment.html
Harvard: https://oir.harvard.edu/files/huoir/files/harvard_fact_book_2002-2003.pdf
Penn: https://web.archive.org/web/20031205062240/http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php
Note: Penn figures here refer to full-time undergraduates, as older headcounts of all undergraduates are not readily available.
Princeton: https://registrar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf136/files/2019-02/common_cds2002.pdf
Yale: http://web.archive.org/web/20130524121437/http://oir.yale.edu/node/530/attachment

2019 Sources: Same as Figure 1