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Overall enrollment up at NMU

Northern Michigan University

MARQUETTE, MI--   Enrollment for undergraduate and graduate students at Northern Michigan University has increased by 137 over last fall. 

The 10th day enrollment report indicates 7,732 students are enrolled, a 1.8 percent increase from fall semester 2018. The number of first-time graduate students rose by 71. That’s a 63.4 percent increase over last year.

The number of new, first-time freshmen decreased by seven. Maintaining the new freshmen rate gives NMU an 18.2 percent increase over a three-year period, which bucks state and national trends.

Officials say NMU’s Global Campus online program enrollment has grown by 108 students, a 26-percent jump.

NMU President Fritz Erickson says through traditional enrollment and the university’s broadband Educational Access Network, the school expects to serve more than 15,400 people this year.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.