re: With UNO enrollment in decline, officials plan to cut courses and adjunct professors

The mid-July 2025 figure showing only about 4,100 students registered for the upcoming fall semester is a staggering drop of roughly 2,000 (or 33%) from the approximately 6,100 enrolled in fall 2024. A drop of 2300 students from the budgeted 6,100 could mean as much as a $25 to $30 million dollar shortfall in UNO's $85 million-dollar 2025-2026 budget.

The article states that current enrollment (4,100) is 64% of the budgeted level. Thus, budgeted enrollment = 4,100 / 0.64 = 6,406.25 students.

Drop = budgeted enrollment - current enrollment = 6,406.25 - 4,100 = 2,306.25 students.

UNO's tuition and fees revenue in 2024 was $65 million with approximately 6,489 enrolled students. Average per student = $65,000,000 / 6,489 ˜ $10,016.95.

Lost revenue = drop × per student revenue = 2,306.25 × $10,016.95 ˜ $23,101,595.

The article notes a $1.5 million shortfall even if enrollment rebounds to flat (budgeted) levels. Total shortfall = $1,500,000 + $23,101,595 ˜ $24,601,595 (rounded to $25 million for practical purposes, accounting for minor variations in part-time/full-time mixes or other fees).

This assumes the shortfall stems primarily from reduced tuition and fees (which comprise about 44% of UNO's revenue historically and are directly tied to enrollment), while state appropriations ($30.5 million in 2024) and other sources remain relatively fixed for the year.

If state funding (around $5,963 per FTE based on 2024 data) also adjusts downward proportionally—a possibility under Louisiana's performance-based formula—the total shortfall could approach or exceed the $30 million structural gap mentioned in broader reports on UNO's finances.

This article is going to cause havoc among the students and faculty at UNO and may likely trigger even more students to pull out of UNO thus causing those numbers to get even worse.

Really terrible as UNO was once a top notch university. Sad to see its demise.

The under-18 population for Orleans Parish (key for future college enrollment) has plummeted from 129,167 in 2000 to about 70,770 in recent years, a decline of over 45%.

Shreveport maybe. Eunice, no.

UNOs issues are on UNO.

As LSU takes fewer and fewer in state students they had an opportunity to grow and even schools like Nicholls have had enrollment boosts.

They have a great location on the lake but they let their campus go to shite and didn't develop anything in the surrounding area to make it more college/residential student focused.


The result is that they have a school that's kind of dumpy where no one feels like it's a part of them. That's how you have every Nola kid who wants to actually have a college experience leave to go elsewhere. SELA even feels like a realish experience. Unfortunately UNO and their leaders did nothing to create that for their school

TOPS crushed UNO and leadership never addressed the issue.

UNO helped me drastically improve my life. It’s hard to think others won’t have the same opportunity.

They should move the campus downtown like Georgia State in downtown Atlanta. It's a central location and people like to be where the action is. Current location is nice by the lake but is kind of out of the way for a lot of people. Move it to Old Charity, city hall, surrounding buildings. Start a 2+2 program with LSU Health and students would only have to walk a few blocks to get to nursing class. Students studying business, hospitality, and other fields could easily get to internships downtown. It would have a distinct advantage over other state schools with all that access to government, tourism, major Healthcare centers, and big companies.

Stop offering degree programs that will get students absolutely nothing but a sheet of paper with their names on it

Many small colleges have used the online programs to boost enrollment. Look at LSUA and NSU for example. Both schools have a very good online program and have brought in a lot of money to the school.
My wife teaches online for LSUA and their online enrollment numbers are way more than on campus.

This could be a route the UNO could look at. Or go back to being LSUNO

Has the quality of the education decreased that much? I know a few CPAs and 2 dentists who went to school there in the late 80s and early 90s.

It was an affordable option to get an education. Isn’t this what people are complaining doesn’t exist?