More students have enrolled in the University of Maine system than ever before.
Chancellor Joseph Westphal said Wednesday that more than 34,700 students have enrolled at Maine’s seven public universities. That’s an increase of 663 students, or nearly 2 percent, over last year. Enrollment is up nearly 1,800 students from the year before last.
The University of Maine in Orono has the most students, with 11,350 full and part time. The University of Southern Maine has 11,300. The University of Maine at Augusta has just over 5,890 and the University of Maine at Farmington has almost 2,400.
Lewiston-Auburn College, which is part of the University of Southern Maine, saw its enrollment increase almost 10 percent this year, from 1,150 to nearly 1,270.
Spokesman Roger Philippon said the enrollment jump is coming from its new graduate program in leadership studies and increases in its social and behavioral science and nursing programs.
“About all of the nursing sections are full,” he said.
According to Westphal, the university system represents nearly 80 percent of all students enrolled in public higher education in Maine.
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