Some Thoughts on Undergraduate Expansion

Sources for Figures 3 & 4

Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale
2002 5774 6929 13725 4084 6649 9917 4779 5339
2019 6820 9001 15043 4459 6716 10448 5422 6092
2020 7043 8842 14743 4170 5212 9960 5267 4703
% Growth 2002-19 18 30 10 9 1 5 13 14
% Growth 2002-20 22 28 7 2 -22 0 10 -12

Links to sources

Brown: https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/factbooks/historical-student-enrollment

Columbia 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20040724184356/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/2004EnrlHC.htm
Columbia 2019, 2020: https://opir.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Statistical%20Abstract/opir_enrollment_history.pdf

Cornell: http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/student-enrollment

Dartmouth: https://www.dartmouth.edu/oir/data-reporting/factbook/enrollment.html

Harvard 2002: https://oir.harvard.edu/historical-fact-books
Harvard 2019, 2020: https://oir.harvard.edu/fact-book/enrollment

Penn 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20040419050607/http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php
Penn 2019: http://web.archive.org/web/20201031234037/https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts
Penn 2020: https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts
Note: Penn figures here refer to full-time undergraduates, as older headcounts of all undergraduates are not readily available.

Princeton 2002, 2019: https://registrar.princeton.edu/enrollment#datasets
Princeton 2020: https://www.princeton.edu/meet-princeton/facts-figures

Yale 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20130524121437/http://oir.yale.edu/factsheet-archive

Yale 2019, 2020: https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/w001_enroll_sum_2021_vf_111020.pdf