Nearly 76 percent of the students who enrolled as freshmen at the University of New Mexico last fall returned this year. Retaining students who initially enroll at UNM is one of the goals of President Louis Caldera.
This fall 3,095 freshmen are attending UNM, another record-breaking number.
The single largest feeder high school this year is Rio Rancho High in Sandoval County with 213 freshmen attending.
Overall, UNM main campus enrollment is stable. There are 26,280 students attending classes on the main campus this year, down just .22 percent from fall 2004. Statewide, including the branches, 32,915 students are attending classes at UNM this fall, a decline of 1.05 percent.
The largest jump in enrollment numbers came at the UNM Taos branch campus which increased by 16.59 percent while the Los Alamos branch campus saw an enrollment decline of 17.46 percent.
The number of women students continues to grow more quickly than the number of male students with 10,730 female undergraduate students on campus this fall, and 7,657 male students.
Detailed statistics on student enrollment can be found at http://www.unm.edu/~unmreg/stats.html.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
Posted by scarr at September 22, 2005 10:38 AM