Morgan State University Fall 2026 Enrollment Reaches 12,119 in Baltimore, First Time Above 12,000, Up 5 Percent for a Sixth Straight Record
BALTIMORE, Maryland — Morgan State University announced fall 2026 enrollment of 12,119 students, the first time the Baltimore university has topped 12,000 in its 159-year history, up 5 percent from last year for a sixth straight record, making Morgan the nation third-largest HBCU, according to the university announcement reported November 2. President David K. Wilson commented on crossing the 12,000-student threshold in the announcement.
The university received 30,262 completed applications for this fall. New first-year enrollment was 2,318 students, while graduate enrollment hit an all-time high of 2,143, up 7 percent, including 489 new graduate students. Transfer enrollment rose about 12 percent, and retention reached 78 percent, matching a level last seen in 2014. Morgan conferred nearly 1,900 degrees during 2025-26, the largest total in school history.
Black male enrollment reached 3,613 students, a 10.3 percent increase, making up about 30 percent of the student body. Nearly half of new students came from outside Maryland, with the recruiting footprint growing from 33 states to 40, while 52 percent of new students this year were Maryland residents. Morgan welcomed 122 new international students from 31 countries, a 20 percent increase, and enrolls 558 students on F-1 visas. Nursing, nutritional science, health education, business administration, finance, marketing and psychology were among the most popular majors.
The university is also working to establish a public, nonprofit medical school, supported by a two-year, 1.75 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation received in 2025 to develop a plan for an M.D. program, which the university says would be the first public medical school operated by an HBCU.
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