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"MSU Enrollment Hits All-time High"
Mississippi Business Journal
September 13, 2007
STARKVILLE — For the first time in its 129-year-history, Mississippi State University (MSU) is surpassing the 17,000-mark in enrollment.
The university reports a record enrollment of 17,039, including the largest-ever freshman class of 2,281 entering students, as fall 2007 classes get underway. The total includes an all-time high at the MSU-Meridian campus and a record number of graduate students, says president Robert H. "Doc" Foglesong.
Fall 2007 enrollment exceeds the previous year by more than 800 students, with more than 16,200 on the Starkville campus.
Current enrollment includes: a record number of African-Americans at 3,351; 76.8% of the student body from Mississippi; MSU-Meridian enrolling a record 821 students; and, graduate and professional enrollment at an all-time high, increasing by 255 last year to 3,831 this fall.
International students number 717 this fall, an increase of 133 from last year. More than 70 countries are represented in this group.
Foglesong says MSU also is increasing the number of students it retains from the freshman to sophomore years. Through the Pathfinders program, a mentoring and intervention effort, the retention rate for freshmen is 83.4%, another record.
Mississippi Business Journal
September 13, 2007
STARKVILLE — For the first time in its 129-year-history, Mississippi State University (MSU) is surpassing the 17,000-mark in enrollment.
The university reports a record enrollment of 17,039, including the largest-ever freshman class of 2,281 entering students, as fall 2007 classes get underway. The total includes an all-time high at the MSU-Meridian campus and a record number of graduate students, says president Robert H. "Doc" Foglesong.
Fall 2007 enrollment exceeds the previous year by more than 800 students, with more than 16,200 on the Starkville campus.
Current enrollment includes: a record number of African-Americans at 3,351; 76.8% of the student body from Mississippi; MSU-Meridian enrolling a record 821 students; and, graduate and professional enrollment at an all-time high, increasing by 255 last year to 3,831 this fall.
International students number 717 this fall, an increase of 133 from last year. More than 70 countries are represented in this group.
Foglesong says MSU also is increasing the number of students it retains from the freshman to sophomore years. Through the Pathfinders program, a mentoring and intervention effort, the retention rate for freshmen is 83.4%, another record.
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