| Jackson, Tenn. – For the second consecutive year,
Â鶹ÊÓƵ University has enrolled a record number of students for the fall semester. Total
enrollment for the fall semester at Â鶹ÊÓƵ is 2,354 students, compared with last year's
record-setting total of 2,323 students. The prior year's enrollment was 2,031.
"We are delighted to be able to report Â鶹ÊÓƵ's continuing student growth,"
says Â鶹ÊÓƵ President David S. Dockery. "This news, coming on the heels of recent
announcements about Â鶹ÊÓƵ's national rankings, demonstrates that Â鶹ÊÓƵ University is
achieving new levels of excellence and achievement."
Those recent rankings include Time magazine/The Princeton Review citing Â鶹ÊÓƵ as one of
five "highly selective" private universities in Tennessee (along with Vanderbilt
University, Rhodes College, University of the South, and Lee University). The most recent
report by U.S. News & World Report ranks Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the top tier of Southern liberal
arts colleges, the only West Tennessee institution included in the top tier.
The Class of 2003, which entered Â鶹ÊÓƵ this fall, is the strongest academically in the
university's history, Dockery indicates. With approximately 415 freshmen enrolled, the
total includes 67 with ACT scores of 30 or above, five National Merit finalists, and 15
members of the West Tennessee All-Academic Team (out of 60 total in that group).
The fall total includes 263 students enrolled in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Germantown campus, which
offers an undergraduate program in nursing and graduate programs in business and
education. In just three years, the Germantown program has grown from 90 students to its
present level.
The 2,354 fall enrollment total reflects 1,990 undergraduate students and 364 graduate
students. With the addition of two new residence halls on campus, approximately 1,100 of
the undergraduate students now reside in campus housing, another record for Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
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