{"id":130303,"date":"2026-01-20T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:54:07","slug":"with-more-students-enrolling-the-university-provides-added-degree-programs-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130303\/","title":{"rendered":"With more students enrolling, the university provides added degree programs and support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 was another banner year for UT San Antonio with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/08\/38000-reasons-to-celebrate-utsa-student-enrollment-soars-to-record-high\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record growth in student enrollment<\/a> during fall for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>A historic 38,200-plus students enrolled in classes for the Fall 2025 semester \u2014 reflecting a 7% increase over last year\u2019s official enrollment of 35,770 \u2014 according to preliminary data from the UTSA Office of Institutional Research and Analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The growth was due largely to the university welcoming the largest incoming class in its history.<\/p>\n<p>Student interest in UT San Antonio continued in October when more than three times as many students applied for admission as in the same month in 2024. During the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/11\/free-week-prompts-a-massive-surge-in-applications-to-ut-san-antonio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-ever\u00a0Texas Free College Application Week<\/a>, Oct. 13-19, UT San Antonio received 16,000 applications from prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The university responded this fall to its growth in students by expanding its academic landscape with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/10\/utsa-introduces-new-academic-programs-prepare-students-for-evolving-workforce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several new degree and certificate programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The added programs, developed in close consultation with faculty, industry experts and the university\u2019s employer partners, are designed to give students a competitive edge and make them leaders in their chosen professions.<\/p>\n<p>For its efforts on this front, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board named UT San Antonio among six institutions across the state as a recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/10\/ut-san-antonio-receives-statewide-award-for-career-readiness-programming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Texas Higher Education Star Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes colleges and universities for their commitment to promoting student success and career development through workforce-aligned programming.<\/p>\n<p>UT San Antonio received the 2025 Star Award for its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsa.edu\/entrepreneurship\/offerings\/najim-strategist.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Najim Strategist Program<\/a>, a hands-on, project-based learning opportunity where students work as paid consultants for local companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 was another banner year for UT San Antonio with record growth in student enrollment during fall for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18977,82,84,83,55991],"class_list":["post-130303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-local-impact","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-student-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}