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Enrolment target within reach: registrar By Sept. 15, two weeks shy of the registration deadline, 4,796 full- and part-time undergraduates had paid their fees and started classes. This is less than the 5,042 who registered by the same time last year. But registrar Paul Thomson is confident Trent will meet its full-time enrolment targets this fall despite a drop in part-time student numbers. Total first-year enrolment is 1,570 compared to last year's 1,592. Still, first-year full-time enrolment is 1,283 and rising, bound to meet the 1,300 target, says registrar Paul Thomson. That's despite 700 fewer first-year applications (5,569 compared to 6,248 last year) and 300 fewer offers of admission (4,323 from 4,621 in 1996-97). The typical high school student entered Trent with an average mark of 74 per cent this year compared to 75 per cent last year. In a report to Senate Sept. 16, Thomson said "the decline this year has been compensated for by modest increases in the number of students studying on letters of permission, transferring form other post-secondary institutions, especially colleges of applied arts and technology." Next year, he says he anticipates "the effect of increased out-of-province and international recruitment efforts will assist in the further broadening of Trent's applicant and registrant pool." There was a slight increase in new part-timers at 287 from the 279 who signed up last year. The total number of returning upper-year full- and part-time undergraduates is 3,226, a drop of 224 in one year. This directly reflects a 26-per-cent drop in returning part-time students: to 655 from 884 last year. "We've met our full-time intake targets and maintained student quality compared to last year," says Thomson. "We remain concerned about the decline in part-time enrolments as is true at universities across Canada." Graduate student enrolment is stable at 95 eligible for government funding this year compared to 94 last year, reported Paul Healy, associate dean of research and graduate studies. Altogether 155 graduate students have enrolled, up from 140 last year. |
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Last updated: September 26, 1997