Idaho postsecondary enrollment
Idaho's public postsecondary system-wide fall enrollment headcount, by year, across the four public four-year institutions and the public community colleges.
Publisher
- Organization
- Idaho State Board of Education
- Publisher’s dataset
- Fall Snapshot Postsecondary Enrollment
- File or API used
- https://boardofed.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/PSR1_FallSnapshot_2025_Headcount.pdf
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-osbe-factbook.py- Methodology
- https://boardofed.idaho.gov/research-data/enrollment-snapshots/
Coverage
- Geography
- Idaho (statewide)
- Time coverage
- 2011-2025 (higher_ed_enrollment, higher_ed_enrollment_by_institution)
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- July 2026
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- License
- The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Public domain. State of Idaho government work.
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Public postsecondary enrollment | Idaho public postsecondary system-wide fall enrollment headcount, by year. | people |
| Postsecondary enrollment by institution | Idaho public postsecondary fall enrollment headcount by institution and year, category one of Boise State University, Idaho State University, University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College, College of Southern Idaho, College of Western Idaho, North Idaho College, or College of Eastern Idaho. | people |
Caveats
- value is headcount (a physical person, not full-time-equivalent), summed across Boise State University, Idaho State University, University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College, and the public community colleges (College of Southern Idaho, College of Western Idaho, North Idaho College, and College of Eastern Idaho once it opened).
- In fall 2012 the enrollment census date changed from the 10th day of the term to October 15; OSBE's own workbook flags 2012 with an asterisk for this reason but does not restate earlier years to the new date.
- Private and out-of-state institutions, and Idaho's professional-technical-only enrollment reported separately from academic headcount, are not included.
- education.higher_ed_enrollment_by_institution's category is one of the eight public institutions named above, each keyed on its own 'Total Headcount' row in the PDF (the row that already sums Academic Full-Time, Academic Part-Time and Career Technical for that institution); for every fall year 2011-2025 the eight institution totals sum exactly to Total System Headcount, checked at runtime.
- An OSBE 'go-on rate' report (the share of Idaho high school graduates enrolling in postsecondary within a year) was searched for but not found as a downloadable, multi-year table: the dedicated boardofed.idaho.gov/resources/go-on-rates/ page now redirects to a generic postsecondary-programs page, a site search for 'go-on rate' returns no results, and the page's own linked attachment (Go-on-rates.pdf, recovered from the Wayback Machine since the live file now 404s) is a bar-chart image of 1-year go-on rates by race/ethnicity for 2011-2015 with no embedded data table or overall statewide figure. Two related research briefs (a 2015 gender-gap analysis and a 2016 cohort-graduation-rate analysis) are similarly chart-only and not current. education.go_on_rate is not pulled for this reason.
Pages built on this dataset
Downloads
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Fall Snapshot Postsecondary Enrollment”, compiled from Idaho State Board of Education, Fall Snapshot Postsecondary Enrollment. Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/osbe-factbook/. CC BY 4.0.
Cite Idaho State Board of Education directly for the figures themselves.
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