Sixteen of the class of 90 students deferred enrollment twice as many as in recent years, says Barbara Carpenter, associate vice president of executive M.
Particular progress has been made in enrollment of students from racial and ethnic minorities, students for whom English is a second language, and students with disabilities.
Like much of American higher education, the University of Michigan has aggressively employed affirmative action to boost enrollment of minority students who otherwise might not qualify for admission.
At the same time, enrollment from foreign students remains robust.
To examine this phenomenon further, I ran multiple regression analyses with the party score as the dependent variable and various institutional data points (controlling for tuition, proportion of students receiving Pell grants, overall enrollment, average SAT scores and whether schools were public or private) as the independent variables.
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In addition to students around the world, Passion-Driven Statistics It has attracted enrollment from Wesleyan alumni and from parents of current and former students.
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White students have realized that historically black colleges can cost half as much as other schools, and declining black student enrollment has forced many black colleges to recruit students of all races.
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Enrollment had fallen to 234 students this year, from a peak of around 450, she said.
This initiative aims to increase school enrollment rate and average of students who accomplish their primary education in the regions with the highest numbers of out-of-school children.
Mr. Weiss said enrollment is near normal, but students often tell of living in cramped spaces or with friends.
Most notably, The State University of New York is participating, which boasts 64 campuses and an enrollment of nearly half a million students.
The credit cannot be claimed for college credits taken under dual enrollment programs, where high school students are simultaneously enrolled in college courses.
Once companies gain a foothold in the market, they can improve their ability to educate more students per class and march upmarket into higher enrollment classes.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of almost 5, 000 students.
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Likewise, buying a health-insurance policy from a college generally isn't a qualified expense but a parent might have an argument if the college requires all students to have coverage as a condition of enrollment, says Andrea Feirstein, managing director at AKF Consulting Group, which advises states that administer 529s.
The school opened in 1962, at the peak of Catholic school enrollment nationwide (5.2 million students).
One of the schools founders explained to me that, whenever possible, students are introduced to the donors who fund their enrollment.
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Last year, the archdiocese closed 27 elementary schools, citing shrinking student bodies: Since 2006, enrollment has plunged by 14, 550 students, officials said.
Some high schools now offer dual enrollment with colleges so that high school students can earn college credits while still attending high school.
But still, many black colleges expect enrollment rates to keep shrinking as families and students struggle in the economic downturn.
Some districts around the U.S. often try to lure away students from neighbors to compete for state aid based on enrollment figures, said John Musso, executive director of the Association of School Business Officials International, in Reston, Va.
To illustrate the points, he documents everything from a sadly amusing competition to house the tallest climbing wall in Texas to the fact that as state budgets are tightening and unemployment is rising, many institutions are unable to serve more students as evidenced by California pairing back its public college enrollment by 165, 000 in the 2009-10 school year even as the for-profit sector added capacity.
Claims that there is no gap in college access for low-income students are based on a flawed analysis that understates college readiness and overstates enrollment figures.
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To shore up enrollment for the fall, schools reached out to current and prospective students to make sure their financial needs were being met.
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Enrollment is roughly 1, 500, and about a third of those students likely were on campus, he said.
All enrollment and graduation data refer to full-time, first-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees.
After years of growing enrollment, the freshman class this year shrank by nearly 10%, to 525 students.
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It began with 100 students spanning kindergarten through eighth grade, but as more New Orleans families heard about the school, enrollment ballooned to 400.
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