Fewer freshmen turn up this semester but graduate students are abundant
Melissa Coleman
Issue date: 10/25/06 Section: News
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With college application season in progress and plenty of students deciding what school is right for them, NDNU is happily awaiting its new enrollees.
Students from all around the world are looking at NDNU as their school of choice for both undergraduate and graduate programs and wondering who else will join them.
As for the students already enrolled at NDNU, students might wonder who makes up the current classes and how it's changed over the years.
Here are the numbers:
In the past five years, NDNU has seen a steady decline in the number of freshmen enrolled at the college. For the Fall 2006 semester, NDNU welcomed 138 new freshmen into the community, down 53 students from the five-year high in Fall 2003 and down seven students from the previous Fall 2005 semester.
When asked if any specific reasons could explain the decline in new freshman enrollment, Interim Dean of Enrollment Jarrid Whitney said, "I do not believe there is any specific reason why the numbers have fluctuated over the last five years at NDNU. With that said, our office is always looking for better ways we can effectively outreach to prospective students."
Although NDNU has not been as successful in reaching new freshmen students, it has however, been doing well in bringing in transfer students.
Transfer students, in the current Fall 2006 semester, are at the highest number they have been since Fall 2003. Again, Whitney could not point to a specific reason in the increase in transfer students, but it could be attributed to the new advertisements appearing all over the radio waves.
These new transfer and freshmen students bring the present Fall 2006 total new undergraduates to 246, up just one more student from last year.
As for graduate students, NDNU saw its greatest increase within the past five years with the number of graduates reaching 480 students, up 56 students from 2005.
And, unfortunately for those girls out there trying to find a date for Friday night, it might prove an even harder task than last year. The total number of male students enrolled in NDNU is at its lowest number in the past five years at 152 men.
And the number of women is up 30 women more.
For this year's freshmen men who are wondering why it seems freshmen women outnumber them, it is because they do - with women making up 70 percent of the freshmen class.
These numbers show that NDNU is doing well in attracting students into its graduate program, improving its master programs altogether and helping to make it easier on students to continue their higher education goals at the same school.
However, NDNU does have some things to work on regarding new ways to appeal to the incoming freshmen.
"I've been very impressed with how the overall NDNU community (staff, faculty, alumni and current students) is so willing to help with our enrollment efforts," Whitney said.
Students from all around the world are looking at NDNU as their school of choice for both undergraduate and graduate programs and wondering who else will join them.
As for the students already enrolled at NDNU, students might wonder who makes up the current classes and how it's changed over the years.
Here are the numbers:
In the past five years, NDNU has seen a steady decline in the number of freshmen enrolled at the college. For the Fall 2006 semester, NDNU welcomed 138 new freshmen into the community, down 53 students from the five-year high in Fall 2003 and down seven students from the previous Fall 2005 semester.
When asked if any specific reasons could explain the decline in new freshman enrollment, Interim Dean of Enrollment Jarrid Whitney said, "I do not believe there is any specific reason why the numbers have fluctuated over the last five years at NDNU. With that said, our office is always looking for better ways we can effectively outreach to prospective students."
Although NDNU has not been as successful in reaching new freshmen students, it has however, been doing well in bringing in transfer students.
Transfer students, in the current Fall 2006 semester, are at the highest number they have been since Fall 2003. Again, Whitney could not point to a specific reason in the increase in transfer students, but it could be attributed to the new advertisements appearing all over the radio waves.
These new transfer and freshmen students bring the present Fall 2006 total new undergraduates to 246, up just one more student from last year.
As for graduate students, NDNU saw its greatest increase within the past five years with the number of graduates reaching 480 students, up 56 students from 2005.
And, unfortunately for those girls out there trying to find a date for Friday night, it might prove an even harder task than last year. The total number of male students enrolled in NDNU is at its lowest number in the past five years at 152 men.
And the number of women is up 30 women more.
For this year's freshmen men who are wondering why it seems freshmen women outnumber them, it is because they do - with women making up 70 percent of the freshmen class.
These numbers show that NDNU is doing well in attracting students into its graduate program, improving its master programs altogether and helping to make it easier on students to continue their higher education goals at the same school.
However, NDNU does have some things to work on regarding new ways to appeal to the incoming freshmen.
"I've been very impressed with how the overall NDNU community (staff, faculty, alumni and current students) is so willing to help with our enrollment efforts," Whitney said.
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