UND Posts Largest First Day Spring Semester Enrollment: 12,182

The University of North Dakota posted its largest ever first day enrollment for a spring semester, and numbers will continue to climb for three more weeks. UND’s first day count of 12,182 is an increase of 5 percent (580) over last spring’s 11,602 opening day number. UND is up 388 in undergraduate students, 192 in graduate students, and 83 in transfer students. The spring semester 2008 first day number was 11,141.

The first day number is an early “snapshot” of the enrollment picture. A final spring enrollment figure will be available after the foourth week of classes and historically is several hundred students higher than the opening day number.

Typical of higher education institutions, UND’s spring enrollment is always lower than the fall semester, in part because UND graduates some 600-700 students in the winter commencement.

UND’s previous highest first day spring semester enrollment was 11,775 in 2005.

Other recent spring semester opening day counts:

* 2006 — 11,643

* 2005 — 11,775

* 2004 — 11,633

* 2003 — 11,297

* 2002 — 10,474

* 2001 — 9,940