adjective
- having more students registered than can be properly accommodated or than the intended capacity
Usage: education
Examples
- The university became overenrolled after accepting too many students.
- Several overenrolled classes had to be moved to larger lecture halls.
- The school district struggled with overenrolled elementary schools.
- Due to budget cuts, many overenrolled programs couldn’t hire additional teachers.
- The overenrolled course had a waiting list of fifty students.
- Parents complained about overenrolled classrooms affecting education quality.