Robinson sets goal of 10,409 students with another 3.0+ GPA freshman class in Fall 2018

Florida A&M University President Larry Robinson wants FAMU to cross the 10,000 student benchmark in Fall 2018 with another strong class of freshmen.

One of his 2017-2018 Annual Goals is to recruit enough students for FAMU to enroll 10,409 in Fall 2018 with another freshman class that has a 3.0+ average GPA.

For Fall 2017, FAMU had a total of 9,913 students. The freshman class had an average GPA of 3.39. Its average SAT score was higher than the Florida and national averages.

FAMU is currently the second smallest university in the State University of System of Florida. It and Florida Polytechnic University, which has only been a university since 2014, are the only two schools that don’t currently have at least 10,000 students.

The enrollment increase in Fall 2017 helped FAMU improve its Moody’s Investors Service outlook from “negative” in 2016 to now “stable.”

Robinson, Florida International University President Mark Rosenberg, and University of Central Florida President John Hitt are refusing to back down on their plans for enrollment increases even though some Florida Board of Governors have questioned the student growth at those three schools.

Correction: An earlier version of this story said that FAMU is the second smallest school in the SUS. That should have read that FAMU is the second smallest university in the SUS.