The University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, campus enrolled a record 54,181 students this fall, the university said Monday, a gain of about 1% from last year’s total of 53,488.
Undergraduates drove the increase. Undergraduate enrollment rose nearly 4.5%, from 35,358 students last year to 36,945 this fall. The incoming first-year class grew 6%, from 8,178 to 8,659 students, and new transfer students jumped 12%, from 1,533 to 1,722.
Graduate enrollment moved the other way, slipping from 18,130 in 2025 to 17,236 this year. That total includes 8,812 master’s students, 5,602 doctoral students and 2,751 students in professional doctorate programs. International graduate and professional students numbered 4,784, down 12.7% from a year ago. A graduate dean pointed to shifts in federal funding and uncertainty over immigration policy as likely factors in the two-year graduate decline.
More than 5,000 of this fall’s new students are from Michigan, representing 78 of the state’s 83 counties, and about 27,742 of the university’s total students are Michigan residents. Students also came from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories and 54 other countries.
Of the 10,381 new first-year and transfer undergraduates, more than 1,500 are the first in their families to attend a university. Michigan State University, by comparison, said its fall enrollment fell almost 2% to 50,941 students, though it enrolls more students from Michigan.
