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The Class of 2014 is the largest in DU’s 146-year history, with 1,232 full-time first-year and 208 transfer students enrolled.

This is an increase of 22 first-year and 14 transfer students from last year, according to the first official count. Final enrollment figures will fluctuate until an official report is released Oct. 4, according to the Office of Institutional Research.

The number of traditional undergraduates enrolled in 2010 is 5,060, a 182-person increase from last year. Combined with students enrolled in the Women’s College and University College, there are 5,520 undergraduate students at DU.

“We have no intention of getting bigger than this,” said Chancellor Robert Coombe at last Tuesday’s Undergraduate Student Government meeting. “In fact, we had no intention of getting this big. We have more students than we want this year, but I think it’s manageable.”

Financially, however, Coombe said DU is in a very stable place.

“The one thing that keeps me up at night is containing the cost,” he said. “The cost is real, as it is largely driven by people. We’ve now hit a level where it cannot go up.”

First-year students of the Class of 2014 are housed in Johnson-McFarlane and Centennial Halls, and 10 floors in Centennial Towers – 30 to 40 more first-year students than last year, according to Justin Price, director of DU housing and residential education (HRE).

“Unless we have a huge influx in first-year students (next year), we won’t have an issue housing the first- and second-years” said Price.

HRE will have a better understanding of what to do in March, once numbers are reported.