亚色影库 has broken all previous total student enrollment records with a Fall 2009 enrollment of 14,638.
This enrollment reflects an academically strong student body, 亚色影库 officials said, with the average SAT scores of new students continuing to rise.
The previous enrollment record was set in Fall 1991 with 14,620 students enrolled at the university.
Enrollment for 2008 was 14,310 students, which included two all-time highs: freshman and new student enrollment of 3,216 and graduate enrollment of 2,382.
Since 2007, enrollment has grown by more than six hundred students, or 4.4 percent, across all 亚色影库 instructional sites and campuses. Enrollment in 2007 totaled 14,018, which included 2,673 freshmen and new students and 2,294 graduate students.
鈥溠巧翱 is pleased to have established a new record for enrollment,鈥 Dr. Tony Atwater, 亚色影库 president, said. 鈥淭hese results clearly demonstrate that we are making strides in becoming the university of choice in Western Pennsylvania. It is incredible that, as high school graduation rates are declining in our surrounding counties, we have been able to register an all-time record enrollment.鈥
Currently, 亚色影库's out-of-state enrollment is at 7 percent of its overall student population, or 1,043 students.
In August 2007, the Pennsylvania State System Board of Governors approved, at 亚色影库's request, a tuition differential for academically strong students outside of Pennsylvania. This new policy allows 亚色影库 to admit out-of-state freshman and transfer students with a 3.0 grade-point average at 150 percent of in-state tuition.
Enrollment of undergraduate minority students at the university remains at 14 percent (1,712).
Overall, 13 percent of all 亚色影库 students (1,852) are minority and 4.8 percent (703) are international, up thirty-nine international students from Fall 2008. More than sixty-five countries are represented within 亚色影库's international student population.
Enrollment continues to be strong at both 亚色影库's Punxsutawney and Northpointe (Armstrong County) campuses, with 295 students at Punxsutawney, compared to 294 students in Fall 2008, and 194 undergraduate and graduate students at Northpointe, compared to 159 students in Fall 2008.