As a new academic year kicks into gear, freshmen enrollment is on the rise at most of UConn’s satellite campuses, university officials said Thursday.
A day after the downtown Hartford campus opened Wednesday to replace the satellite campus in West Hartford, freshmen enrollment has increased there by 15 percent. With a new student residence hall at the Stamford campus, freshmen enrollment there climbed 50 percent. The Waterbury campus is trending at a 24 percent increase, while the Avery Point campus statistics have not changed, officials said.
Across the Storrs and satellite campuses, a record 184 valedictorians and salutatorians are now studying at UConn this year, UConn President Susan Herbst said. More than half – 54 percent – of the incoming freshmen at Storrs were in the top 10 percent of their graduating high school classes, and 89 percent were in the top 25 percent, she said.
Among incoming freshmen, about 73 percent are Connecticut natives, the highest number in recent years, she added.
“UConn has once again attracted a record number of Connecticut high school seniors to apply across all of UConn’s campuses, and has done so in the face of a declining number of high school graduates in the state,” said Nathan Fuerst, UConn’s assistant vice president for enrollment and director of undergraduate admissions.