
Enrollment is up this fall at the University of North Dakota. The first day headcount came in at 13,545 – an increase of 132 students.
The nearly one-percent jump over the fall of 2020 includes an 8.65% increase in new freshmen. The figures boast an increase in new law and med students – and a six-and-a-half percent increase in graduate students.
UND will release final enrollment figures in September.
Total Undergraduate 9,582 -81 -0.84%
Total Graduate 3,446 213 6.59%
Total LAW 236 16 7.27%
Total MED 281 -16 -5.39%
Total Enrollment 13,545 132 .98%


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