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Enrollment Trends in Dairy Production

Michigan State University, East Lansing

ABSTRACT

A questionnaire was sent to 49 states and Hawaii requesting the number of undergraduate students by classes and by years from 1949 through 1958. Information on the numbers of students who received the master's degree or the doctorate degree was requested for the same 10-yr. period. Forty-three states responded.

The intent of the questionnaire was to obtain general enrollment trends of dairy production students. The data obtained would not warrant a thorough and complete analysis. For those students who selected dairy production as their major, it would have been helpful to know the drop-out rates and their reason for changing, etc. Regardless of the number of students who chose dairy production initially, only those who graduated are available to the industry. As dairy departments fulfill their educational obligation to the dairy industry, we hope the B.S. degree, M.S. degree, and Ph.D. degree graduates will make a very real contribution to the future of the dairy industry.