College of Engineering leads way as UNL attracts biggest freshman class in 35 years

The College of Engineering is one of the driving forces behind UNL achieving its highest enrollment totals in more than three decades.
** Total fall 2014 enrollment in the College of Engineering - counting undergraduate, graduate, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resourses, College of Arts and Sciences and Pre-Engineering students --  is 4,101, up from 3,733 in fall 2013 (a 9.9 percent increase);
** Undergraduate enrollment is 3,477, up from 3,127 in 2013 (an 11.6 percent increase); and
** First-time freshman enrollment is 666, up from 614 in 2013 (an 8.5 percent increase from fall 2013).
The College of Engineering also experienced huge increases in other enrollment totals:
** A record number of female students enrolled jumped to 486 (an increase of 81 from 2013);
** There were also record numbers for black (69) and Hispanic students (114);
** The number of international students enrolled increased by 140; and
** Undergraduate students from other states increased by 36.
The overall UNL enrollment total for fall 2014 reached 25,006 students - a 2.3 percent increase over last year and the second-highest total in the university's history. The all-time high for overall enrollment was 25,075 in 1982.
UNL's first-time freshman enrollment reached 4,652, an increase of 232 students (a 5.2 percent increase). That creates the university's second-largest freshman class and the biggest since 1979, when 4,702 first-time freshmen enrolled.
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