LEXINGTON (09/12/25) — Enrollment at the University of Kentucky is now pushing 40,000 students, with a preliminary fall enrollment of 38,719, UK President Eli Capilouto told members of the Board of Trustees on Friday. This number is up from 35,951 last fall. The report noted 7,000 first-year enrollments at the Lexington school, up from 65-hundred a year ago, with 4,000 of those from the state of Kentucky.
