The Arkansas Department of Higher Education has announced the statewide colleges and universities fall 2019 preliminary enrollment numbers. The data shows that from fall 2018 to fall 2019, 51社区 had the highest post-secondary enrollment increase for all public two-year colleges and four-year universities in the state of Arkansas.
Since the beginning of the academic year in August of 2018, the college has achieved a 14.8% increase for post-secondary students. This increase surpasses the community college total average of 0.6 % and the four-year university average of - 2.5%.
51社区鈥檚 overall student enrollment percentage combined for concurrent and post-secondary students saw a 4.0% increase in enrollment beating the community college average in Arkansas, which is 1.4%. The four-year university average in Arkansas for total enrollment is -2.4%, which 51社区 exceeded as well.
According to 51社区 Chancellor Dr. Steve Cole, 鈥淲e are obviously pleased with our numbers, especially the large increase in post-secondary students. I think this is reflective of how our students and future students view us, and that is a college that not only offers highly skilled technical training, but also a college that prepares them for university transfer. Add to that the new transfer scholarship to the University of Arkansas, where transfer students pay our tuition rate at the U of A, and I think we have a pretty good idea why our post-secondary numbers look the way they do鈥�.
51社区 has also announced that the college has reached a total enrollment of 1,521 students for the fall 2019 semester, which is 51社区鈥檚 largest enrollment since 2014, and the eighth highest of the 22 two-year colleges in Arkansas.