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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowEnrollment at Indiana University’s eight
campuses for the spring semester reached a record of 97,155 students,
an increase of 3,754, or 4 percent, from last spring’s total, the
university announced today.
IU East in Richmond showed an almost a 10-percent increase over the
previous spring semester. IU Bloomington’s enrollment increased 3.3
percent and IUPUI’s rose 3.5 percent.
At IUPUI, records were set for graduate, professional and total enrollments as well as for total credit hours taken.
Additionally, Asian-American and Hispanic enrollments hit at an
all-time high. IUPUI’s enrollment, including graduate students, this
spring is 29,126, compared with last spring’s 28,134, an increase of
992 students.
IU Bloomington, with a record 38,599 spring-semester students, also saw
records for undergraduate and graduate enrollment. Total credit hours
were up 4.3 percent, to 510,066.
Total credit hours taken at all IU campuses hit 1.12 million, an increase of 52,536 hours, or 4.9 percent.
“It is apparent that the nation’s troubled economic climate is
providing people with even more incentive to enroll in higher
education,” said IU President Michael A. McRobbie in a prepared
statement.
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