Summer enrollment drops at U of Illinois 1st time in 6 years
Posted July 14, 2016 7:00 am
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - For the first time in six years summer enrollment at the University of Illinois' largest campus is down.
The News-Gazette in Champaign reports (http://bit.ly/29w5XCz ) that enrollment at the Urbana-Champaign campus this summer is 11,214. That is down by 470 students, or about 4 percent.
Summer enrollment had climbed every year since 2011. That summer it was 9,258.
In-state enrollment this summer is 5,616 while 3,407 foreign students are on campus.
University officials did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press to discuss potential reasons for the enrollment decrease.
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Information from: The News-Gazette, http://www.news-gazette.com
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