From Our President - How Big Are We?

How big are we?
Since I’ve come here, I’ve heard a lot of different statements about the size of this place. I’ve been told COD is the third largest single-campus community college. I’ve heard fifth largest. I’ve heard multiple other variations. Let me give you the easiest, most accurate way to describe our size: We are the largest single-campus community college outside the state of California.
In terms of exact numbers of students, at COD headcount is always an unduplicated enrollment count that measures how many students we enrolled for a specific period of time. For fiscal year 2010, our 10th day total headcount for all three terms (Summer ’09, Fall ’09, and Spring ’10) was 62,555 different students, of which 47,915 were credit and 14,640 were non-credit students.
Full Time Equivalent Students (FTES) is a measure defined by the Illinois Community College Board as is the number of credit hours generated by an institution divided by 15 (a full-time load). Therefore, we can use this metric to compare relative size of institutions of higher education within Illinois. For fiscal year 2010, the total 10th day FTE count for COD was 37,620 with the following distribution: 5,595 summer, 16,036 fall and 15,989 spring.

Source: COD This Week