Each fall and spring semester, the University of Maryland’s Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment releases a detailed breakdown of the student body’s demography. IRPA’s fall 2015 report came out this month, and it offers some interesting insight into the ways this university’s student body changes year over year.

The biggest takeaways from this fall’s report: We’re slowly becoming a larger student body, with more diversity in age and race — consistently, but just barely.

Here’s the fall 2015 data. A few interesting notes:

Our total undergraduate population is up from 27,056 in fall 2014 to 27,443 this year. That’s an increase of about 1.5 percent, and it follows a rise of 1.5 percent the year before. If that trend keeps up, we’ll be just 100 or 200 students shy of a 28,000 undergraduate population by this time next year.

The minority percentage of the student body is up from 42 percent to 42.6 percent. Minority representation is increasing across the board, but the sharpest jump is in Asian students, who went from 15.9 percent to 16.2. (We’re dealing with the margins here.)

On the whole, our students are getting older. The average age of a university undergraduate is still 21, but the proportion of the student body that is freshmen and sophomores uniformly went down — from 39.6 percent of students being underclassmen last fall to 38.4 percent being underclassmen this fall. Nearly 60 percent of us are juniors or seniors.

Slightly more men than women attend this university, and we’re inching more in that direction as the years go by. Two years ago, the student body was 53.4 percent male. Last year, it was 53.5 percent, and this year, it is 53.9.

Despite construction of the high-rise dorm Prince Frederick Hall, the percentage of undergraduates living on the campus fell from 43.7 percent to 40.5.

The graduate student population has changed a bit, too. After total graduate enrollment fell in 2014 by exactly 60 students, the graduate count today is 10,697.

That’s a 0.8 percent increase from the level it was at two years ago, and it brings our total student population, by IRPA’s accounting, to 38,140.