Enrollment of graduate students rises this fall at YSU


September 22, 2013 at 5:06p.m.

Enrollment of graduate students rises this fall at YSU

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

While undergraduate enrollment at Youngstown State University slipped this semester, the university saw an increase in the number of graduate students.

Graduate enrollment increased to 1,203 students this fall from 1,157 in fall 2012, according to a 14th day enrollment summary from YSU’s Office of Institutional Research and Policy Analysis.

YSU President Randy Dunn in a meeting earlier this month with Vindicator editorial writers and a reporter pointed to the increase in graduates as a bright spot in enrollment. Undergraduate enrollment fell 3.1 percent from fall 2012.

Jack Fahey, vice president for student affairs, attributed the graduate gain to increased marketing, moving the processing of graduate admissions from the graduate school to the admissions office and attending 25 graduate college fairs university personnel hadn’t previously attended.

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