During the latter decades of the 20th century, Calvin grew to around 4,200 students, where the enrollment has remained since.
After 1893 expenditure fell although enrolment remained virtually at the 1890 level.
Generally, enrollment increased throughout the 1990s and remained steady.
Since its founding in 1988, the enrollment has remained around 1,600 students.
During the thirty-year span from 1940 to the beginning of 1970 Western's enrollment remained in the 300 to 325 range.
The enrollment remained at about 500 until the College became a state institution in 1970.
Officials project that enrollment will remain about its present level.
Those increases have made it difficult for the state schools to keep up with demand as enrollment has remained relatively stagnant.
Through the 1970s, enrollment remained in the high 300s.
Within a decade, enrollment would reach 2,000 and has remained around this level ever since then.