{"id":1388461,"date":"2025-02-05T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1388461"},"modified":"2025-02-07T03:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:11:46","slug":"etbu-celebrates-continued-strong-enrollment-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1388461","title":{"rendered":"ETBU celebrates continued strong enrollment for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/ETBU-150x107.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-802947\" \/> East Texas Baptist University continues to see strong enrollment for the Spring 2025 semester, marking the second-highest Spring enrollment in the University&#8217;s history. The Spring 2025 enrollment stands at 1,612 students, following last year&#8217;s record-setting Spring enrollment of 1,657 students. This marks the first time in ETBU&#8217;s history that Spring enrollment has exceeded 1,600 students in consecutive years. &#8220;We are grateful for the continued strength of our enrollment and the confidence students and families place in ETBU,&#8221; said President J. Blair Blackburn. &#8220;These numbers reflect the dedication of our faculty and staff and the unwavering mission of our University to provide a transformative Christ-centered educational experience. We celebrate how God is working in the lives of our students as they grow academically, spiritually, and professionally.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate enrollment remains strong at 1,440 students, making it the second-highest in ETBU history, following last year&#8217;s record of 1,481 students. Additionally, dual enrollment totals 258 students, the second-highest for a Spring term. The University continues to provide affordable and accessible higher education to high school students across East Texas, including the cities of Marshall, Tyler, and Waskom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; East Texas Baptist University continues to see strong enrollment for the Spring 2025 semester, marking the second-highest Spring enrollment in the University&#8217;s history. The Spring 2025 enrollment stands at 1,612 students, following last year&#8217;s record-setting Spring enrollment of 1,657 students. This marks the first time in ETBU&#8217;s history that Spring enrollment has exceeded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1388461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETBU celebrates continued strong enrollment for Spring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1388464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/ETBU-150x107.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 19:50:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/ETBU-150x107.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388470,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388461\/revisions\/1388470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}