Fall enrollment ndsu

[LefseBison]

Will be interested to hear about the projected new year for NDSU fall enrollment. I read that MSUM is up 10% for undergraduate students and 18% for graduate students. I hope we can also do well.

[HerdBot]

I'm curious too. I hope MSUM can start growing again. Their decline over the last 20 years has been sad to see. Free tuition for families under 80k should help

[LefseBison]

I'm curious too. I hope MSUM can start growing again. Their decline over the last 20 years has been sad to see. Free tuition for families under 80k should help

NDSU has the same thing free tuition for families under $80,000. Only difference is that the State of Minnesota pays for the tuition for eligible students at the Minnesota colleges whereas at NDSU, it is (for now) funded by private donors until/if the ND State Legislature helps out.

I don't think NDSU has publicized the "free tuition for families under $80,000 very much." Their promotion/recruitment of NDSU has always been subpar in my opinion.

[LefseBison]

I'm curious too. I hope MSUM can start growing again. Their decline over the last 20 years has been sad to see. Free tuition for families under 80k should help

Even with MSUM having a 10% increase in undergraduate enrollment, I saw in "the paper" that they are planning to cut 6 faculty positions. Not an earthshaking amount but, still, 6 positions in order to balance the budget.

[GCWaters]

Everything I've seen says we'll be down a little this year, but not much...hopefully, this is the low point and things start moving back up...

[GCWaters]

I don't think NDSU has publicized the "free tuition for families under $80,000 very much." Their promotion/recruitment of NDSU has always been subpar in my opinion.

I agree...people got complacent when a few billboards in MSP was all we needed. That changed, and our recruiting/marketing people haven't kept up.

[LefseBison]

I heard it is not down "a little." One person who knows her stuff told me they did NOT promote the free tuition very much for North Dakota and Minnesota students.

Recruitment/marketing people have a JOB. DO IT. Lazy. There is a lot of competition for student dollars.

[The_Sicatoka]

Welcome to it: https://www.google.com/search?q=enro...hrome&ie=UTF-8

You were ready or you were not.

[BISONBRI53]

I heard it is not down "a little." One person who knows her stuff told me they did NOT promote the free tuition very much for North Dakota and Minnesota students.

Recruitment/marketing people have a JOB. DO IT. Lazy. There is a lot of competition for student dollars.

Sounds like our AD...

[LefseBison]

Everything I've seen says we'll be down a little this year, but not much...hopefully, this is the low point and things start moving back up...

Administration has been saying this for years. "Next year will be better." If UND has gone up and MSUM has gone up and, what I am hearing, NDSU is going down in enrollment (we will wait and see), then it is on NDSU Recruitment as it proves they are doing a poor job. And NDSU has its own tuition-free program. So double down on blame to them.

I get steamed when NDSU does not sell itself better than it does. Nobody to blame but themselves. Bad, lackadaisical recruitment in some of the colleges.

One of the professors told me a year ago that she was sick and tired of recruiting materials having a huge focus on the football program. The Bison football program is an icing-on-the-cake thing but not the main reason 99% of students come here.

** Also Valley City State has consistently gone up in enrollment. I am on their mailing list for some reason (I gave them a small donation once and they never give up on me) and so I get lots of their stuff. Excellent salesmanship of the university. If I had had kids, I might have sent them there.