UM bucks national trend, boasts big rise in enrollment
The UM Class of 2017 participate in the annual Rebel Run across the football field before the Southeast Missouri game on Saturday. Photo by Katie Williamson
The Institutes for Higher Learning and The University of Mississippi released preliminary student enrollment numbers for the 2013 fall semester, which showed Ole Miss enrollment to be the highest in the state of Mississippi and in the school’s history.
On the university’s six campuses, 22,286 students are enrolled, which is up 758 students from last fall, or 3.5 percent.
On the Oxford campus alone, 18,423 students are enrolled, which is up 632 students from last fall, or 7.4 percent.
The student body includes 3,579 new freshmen, up 6.1 percent from last fall’s class of 3,373, making this the largest freshman class for any university in Mississippi history, according to the UM press release.
According to IHL, preliminary enrollment figures are unduplicated and count students one time if enrolled on more than one campus.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Census Bureau released statistics showing that college enrollment numbers were down in 2012 by almost half a million students from the year prior.
