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Enrollments growing at Missouri's higher education institutions

By Bob Watson
bwatson@newstribune.com

Published: Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:08 AM CDT

Almost everywhere you look, Missouri colleges and universities are reporting the same "problem" -- higher enrollments than last year.

"This is a very lovely problem to have," Lincoln University President Carolyn Mahoney said last month.

Mike Kosher, LU's Admissions director, said the incoming class of students to LU is the highest tracked since 1996.

LU recorded 2,848 students at the beginning of school Aug. 24 -- up from 2,592 students on the first day of classes last year.

And the official census doesn't occur until after the fourth week of classes, when the number likely will be adjusted upward.

Rob Crouse, spokesman for Fulton's Westminster College, a private, four-year college, reported:the school is experiencing record enrollment for the tenth straight year. Westminster started the fall with 1,080 students -- a 9.1 percent increase over last year.

The University of Missouri-Columbia also is claiming a new record -- 30,831 students, a 3.6 percent increase from last year's 29,761undergraduate and graduate program students.

The university's Rolla campus -- now known as Missouri University of Science and Technology -- has seen enrollment increases over the last five years.

So has Columbia-based Stephens College, a private, four-year women-only school.


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