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PROVO — Brigham Young University student enrollment is rising to the level it was prior to when the LDS mission age change was announced.
Undergraduate and graduate daytime enrollment is currently 32,615 compared to the approximately 33,000 it was in the fall of 2012 when the announcement was made, according to BYU.
Following the announcement that stated male missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could serve at 18 and females at 19, the university experienced a 10 percent decline in enrollment during the fall of 2013 and 2014.
Additionally, there are more returned missionaries on campus than there ever has been: 20,401 students have served missions, making up 63 percent of the current student population.
Before the mission age was changed, there were 15,453 students, or 46 percent, who had served.
The percentage of male students who had served missions went from 79 percent to 88 percent, and the number of female returned missionary students went from 10 percent to 33 percent.
Currently, 53 percent of the student population is male and 47 percent is female.
