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Cache Valley Daily Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022
USU Fall enrollment up 14 percent at residential campuses
Enrollment among first-year students at the three Utah State University residential campuses In Logan, Price and Blanding is up by more than 14 percent this fall.
Katie Jo North, USU’s executive director of new student enrollment, isn’t surprised by the numbers.
“I think we have seen that students want to be back,” North said. “They want a college experience and so it makes a lot of sense that we’ve seen them at our residential campuses that can offer that whole college experience, living on campus and attending events, and they want to be back in person.”
She said since the start of COVID, the last 12 months was the first time their office has been able to get out and recruit.
“I think, also, we’ve had some opportunities with some different scholarships to help students that financially haven’t been able to come in the past as well,” she added. “So, I think there’s multiple factors of students wanting that college experience and then finally getting able to do some of that, that they haven’t been able to do the last few years.”
She said another popular program is the Utah State Promise, a needs-based program with covers the remaining tuition and fees for those students who are eligible for a federal Pell grant.