JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., (WJHL) - East Tennessee State University (ETSU) announced at its quarterly Board of Trustees' meeting that it had a record-breaking enrollment for Fall 2025, welcoming 2,284 into its first-year class.

The 2,284 students make up the largest first-year class in ETSU history.

"Ultimately, students are choosing us," said ETSU president Brian Noland. "They're choosing the institution. They're choosing our degree programs. They're choosing to study with our faculty. We've become an institution of choice, a destination university."

ETSU also reported its highest number of students living on campus for its second year in a row, filling more than 3,300 beds last academic year and adding another 80 beds over the last year.

One statistic that Noland pointed out during his Pre

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