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A record freshman class has fueled overall enrollment at Baylor University to a historic high, but university officials say they would prefer to see student population settle at traditional levels in the future.

The university has 16,263 students enrolled this fall, surpassing the previous student record of 15,616 set in fall 2013.

Those figures include Baylor’s largest-ever freshman class of 3,625 students, besting the previous record freshman class of 3,259 students who enrolled during the fall 2010 semester.

“This was an exceptional year, and while we’re very pleased with all the students that have joined us this fall as new students, we’re not expecting that trend to continue,” said Diana Ramey, associate vice president of enrollment. “It’s not our intention to be this large.”

More students than anticipated committed to Baylor instead of choosing to enroll in another college they had been accepted to, resulting in the large freshman class.

The higher enrollment required the university to add more staff so that the student-faculty class ratio wouldn’t increase. Baylor also had to reconfigure dorm rooms and ask some upperclassmen to move off campus because first-year students are required to live on campus.