NDSU enrollment drops, meanwhile UND, Bottineau, Valley City, and Dickinson state are up. The whole state is down 2%. Last year MSUM was up, haven't seen this years numbers yet

At what point in time do we start looking for someone to blame? President Dean Bresciani set a goal of enrolling 18,000 students and now it's 12,846 down from 14,747 in 2014. Sorry the pandemic is not an excuse. This is a recent trend. People don't decide not to go to college because of a pandemic. That's almost 2,000 less people living in Fargo who all rent and spend money at area businesses. They are potential long term home owners too. That impact is more significant than people realize.

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