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YSU Enrollment Up for 13th Consecutive Semester
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Enrollment is up for the 13th consecutive semester at Youngstown State University. The preliminary, 14-day enrollment for spring semester is 12,396, up by 36 students from last spring semester, the university reported today.Enrollment has increased every semester -- spring, summer and fall -- since spring semester 2001. The number of students on campus in spring 2000 was 10,872. Enrollment has increased by 1,524 students since then, a jump of 14%, the university said. YSU's Bitonte College of Health and Human Services again experienced the largest enrollment increase, from 2,718 students last spring to 3,056 this spring, an increase of 12.4%. Enrollment in HHS was 2,029 four years ago. It has increased by more than 1,000 students or nearly 51 percent since then, the university said.Enrollment increases also occurred this spring semester in the College of Fine and Performing Arts (1.7%) and the College of Arts and Sciences (0.7%).The university's full-time equivalent enrollment is 9,731, up 0.1% from 9,718 last spring. FTE enrollment was 8,665 in spring 2000. It has increased by more than 1,000 or 12.3% since 2000.Minority enrollment increased by 9%, from 1,619 last spring to 1,794 this spring. The university has set an enrollment goal of 14,000 by fall 2008. Visit Youngstown State University at www.ysu.edu"