The University of Toledo is celebrating record-breaking student success and early results of new recruitment strategies to attract students who have The Power To Do more to achieve their goals as Rockets.
Student enrollment headcount for the fall semester 2025 is 14,290 students, which includes increases in the number of new adult students of over 50% (up 72), and new transfer students of nearly 2% (up 11), who chose to pursue their undergraduate degrees at UToledo, including over 1,200 high school students taking college classes at the university. The University also is seeing increases in the number of graduate students on campus, up 76 or a 2.2% increase.
The student enrollment for fall 2025 includes 10,810 undergraduate students and 3,480 graduate students.
The fall 2025 enrollment reflects updates to UToledo’s undergraduate recruitment strategies to attract more adult, online and transfer students to campus while enhancing marketing efforts for traditional direct-from-high-school students.
“The University of Toledo provides great value for our students. We have the programs they want, the learning environments they require, the support structure they need and the outcomes they deserve,” UToledo President James Holloway said. “Our goal is to attract even more students to the amazing opportunities available at UToledo where every student studies in an environment enriched by our research mission and our focus on the practical consequences for their futures.”
“I’m optimistic that as we share the story of our advantages, we will soon be seeing even more students taking advantage of all UToledo has to offer,” he added. “Kudos to our enrollment team for all their efforts to make UToledo available to amazing young learners.”
Holloway, who joined UToledo as its 19th president in July, said he was excited to celebrate record-breaking student retention and graduation rates that demonstrate UToledo’s commitment to supporting student success.
“I’m immensely grateful to all the staff and faculty at UToledo who are making this happen,” he said.
UToledo set a record for its highest graduation rate with 58.4% of students who first enrolled at UToledo in 2019 graduating in six years, up from the previous record of 57.9% set the prior year.
At the same time, UToledo set a record for the highest first-to-second year retention rate at 80.4%, impressively climbing more than three percentage points from 77.3% the year before.
Among Ohio’s public universities, UToledo earns high marks for social and income mobility. UToledo is a top five university for earnings after graduation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau post-secondary employment outcomes data. The University is additionally among the top three for lifetime return on investment, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, and has been ranked #2 by the Wall Street Journal for time to repay among Ohio’s public universities.
For fall 2025, several new academic programs attracted students to UToledo, including the new neuroscience and radiation therapy undergraduate programs and the new master’s degree in cosmetic science and formulation design, all of which more than doubled the number of students enrolled in the programs from the previous year.
UToledo’s graduate programs in the John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation experienced notable growth with a 16% increase in students seeking advanced degrees. Included in the college’s growth is interest in fully online programs, which experienced student enrollment increases of more than 45% from the previous year.
Across UToledo, enrollment in fully online programs grew more than 20% at the undergraduate level and more than 50% in the University’s online graduate programs.
