NSU enrollment increases 2.2 percent

(Tahlequah, OK)--Enrollment figures at Northeastern State University continued to rise in the Spring 2011 semester, with the university announcing a combined enrollment of 8,994 at the Tahlequah, Muskogee and Broken Arrow campuses.

The enrollment at each campus was 6,578 at Tahlequah, 3,401 at Broken Arrow and 561 at Muskogee.

"Northeastern is hosting its largest spring enrollment in sixteen years," said NSU President Don Betz. "Our focus remains on the quality of education and helping students learn and graduate. We are pleased to serve the people of Oklahoma and others pursuing their education and their dreams here."

NSU's enrollment is the third highest for a spring term since the university began tracking its enrollment trends in 1980. It is also the greatest spring enrollment since 1995.

This spring's enrollment is an increase of 2.2 percent over the Spring 2010 number of 8,785.

Provost Martin Tadlock said the university administration was pleased with the enrollment increase and that every effort was being made to ensure that students succeed at NSU.

"We have added educational support services and technologies for students such as SmarThinking, Map-Works and DARS along with instructional support and technologies for faculty such as Wimba, iTunesU, OpenSource, and Quality Matters," he said. "We are growing programs dedicated to working adults, expanding co-curricular activities, placing additional value on quality teaching and engagement in our region and providing unprecedented international opportunities for our students, faculty, and staff. NSU is truly a remarkable place and we are not sitting still and this enrollment increase suggests we are getting the word out."

Credit hours enrolled also increased from a year ago, from 100,362 in Spring 2010 to 102,819 in Spring 2011 an increase of 2.2 percent. The credit hour figures are the highest since 2005.

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