Monday, SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 |Photo – UW logo – Bigfoot99 file photoEnrollment is up at the University of Wyoming in Laramie for the second straight semester. After two weeks of classes, UW’s overall fall 2025 enrollment stands at 10,819, up from 10,813 compared to the same time last year. President Seidel noted that efforts to improve recruitment and retention numbers are “starting to bear fruit.”The fall semester enrollment growth follows a 1.4% increase in UW’s spring 2025 enrollment compared to the previous spring, which was the first year-over-year enrollment increase since before the COVID pandemic. Some 79.4 percent of first-time, first-year students who enrolled at UW last fall have returned for the fall 2025 semester, up from retention rates of 79 percent last year and 76 percent in 2020. The number of UW students pursuing degrees online increased by 8.5 percent, from 1,896 last fall to 2,058 this semester, while the number of graduate students is basically steady, going from 2,683 to 2,681.