Contact: Jep Choate, (505) 277-6419 David Stuart, (505) 277-0896 Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821

March 5, 2003 2003 SPRING ENROLLMENT UP MORE THAN 3.7 PERCENT Spring semester enrollment at the University of New Mexico is up 3.78 percent as compared to last year, according to the Official 2003 Spring Enrollment Report. As of the Feb. 7 census date, 23,813 students were attending UNM’s main campus, compared with 22,946 last spring, making it the largest spring enrollment total since 1999. Returning student enrollment is 20,297 students, or 3.04 percent compared with last spring, while beginning freshmen retention (fall-to-spring) is 88.4 percent. According to the Office of Academic Affairs, another notable increase came in the area of evening and weekend enrollment with a spring credit hour increase of 11.7 percent or 5,548 additional credit hours, mostly upper-division and graduate, reported over last spring. Daytime credit hours increased a total of 4,465 for a 2.55 percent increase, which is an all-time record for evening and weekend enrollments. “The Evening and Weekend Degree Programs continue to experience double digit enrollment increases and a record number of students (more than 12,000) are currently in ‘Night Shift’ and weekend classes,” said David Stuart, associate provost for Academic Affairs. “A soft economy and the clouds of war seem to be significant factors.” # # #

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