For second year in a row, UNT hits record high with enrollment

Harry · September 15, 2016

University of North Texas Hurley Administration Building

The University of North Texas continues to see an increase in enrollment and, for the second year in a row, has posted a record for students enrolled with 37,973 students, which is a 2 percent increase over last year.

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UNT Mean Green · September 16, 2016

Great news! President Smatresk continues to impress!

PlummMeanGreen · September 16, 2016

Gaining on that 40,000 UNT student enrollment each Fall.

GMG81 · September 16, 2016

Excellent news. Growing the student body expands the brand for when they graduate into the workforce. Though UNT must be careful to not water down the product.

MeanGreen_MBA · September 16, 2016

34 minutes ago, GMG81 said:

Excellent news. Growing the student body expands the brand for when they graduate into the workforce. Though UNT must be careful to not water down the product.

yea, I am hoping the standards move to the point to where I would not have been accepted....still baffles me...GMG!!!!

ChristopherRyanWilkes · September 16, 2016

1 hour ago, GMG81 said:

Excellent news. Growing the student body expands the brand for when they graduate into the workforce. Though UNT must be careful to not water down the product.

Yeah, I'd be more interested to see what the average SAT is than our enrollment numbers. You definitely don't want bad representatives out there attempting to get into the workforce. What concerns me is this is during a time when college enrollment is on its way down post-recession, yet colleges continue to accept more and more students, lowering admission standards. Some schools have finally figured out the way to get ranked in national publications and build prestige for your university is actually by limiting your enrollment to ensure higher SAT and GPA averages among your students.

Huff · September 16, 2016

When I enrolled at North Texas State College in the Fall of 1960 we had about 8000 students. Only one-third of those were girls, but even then there were some beautiful gals in that bunch. I was lucky enough to get one of them to marry me. The place is far different today but there are still a bunch of darned good looking girls there.

Cerebus · September 16, 2016

2 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

Gaining on that 40,000 UNT student enrollment each Fall.

THECB wants us to get to 45k ASAP.

PlummMeanGreen · September 16, 2016

We had a string of record-breaking Freshmen classes. Has that continued?

Stix · September 16, 2016

I'm wondering if the "New College at Frisco" included in this number, and if so, how many from there?

PlummMeanGreen · September 16, 2016

3 hours ago, Stix said:

I'm wondering if the "New College at Frisco" included in this number, and if so, how many from there?

Hey Stix! As a kid down in the Danbury ISD (between Alvin & Angleton) we took a field trip to your Imperial Sugar Company in your great city of Sugar Land, Texas. The group that first backed Elvis in Las Vegas its founder Jake Hess named "the Imperials' after the Imperial Sugar Company.

AND.....I stand to be corrected, but I don't think the Frisco campus would be counted toward those numbers any more than UNTHSC, Fort Worth, UNT-Dallas or UNT Law School would be but.....I stand to always be corrected.

GMG!

oldguystudent · September 17, 2016

12 hours ago, GMG81 said:

Though UNT must be careful to not water down the product.

I've been saying that for a while, but people don't want to hear that. The graduate school of business was pretty much open enrollment to anybody with a checkbook during my time of 2008-2011. I asked them what kind of score I needed on the GMAT. The answer was 25th percentile. That doesn't mean the top 25%. It means better than the bottom 25%. I know that they began to seriously reconsider when they saw the students in the classroom.

KRAM1 · September 17, 2016

5 hours ago, Stix said:

I'm wondering if the "New College at Frisco" included in this number, and if so, how many from there?

300 according to Dr. Smatresk in the State of the University talk Thursday and they are included. The New College at Frisco is 100% part of the Denton UNT campus. Enrollment expected to grow to 500 soon, and I think I heard somewhere that they are looking for about 2500 over time.

UNT 90 Grad · September 17, 2016

8 minutes ago, oldguystudent said:

I've been saying that for a while, but people don't want to hear that. The graduate school of business was pretty much open enrollment to anybody with a checkbook during my time of 2008-2011. I asked them what kind of score I needed on the GMAT. The answer was 25th percentile. That doesn't mean the top 25%. It means better than the bottom 25%. I know that they began to seriously reconsider when they saw the students in the classroom.

Hmmm. I know someone at work that didn't make the cut a few weeks ago wanting to get her MBA at UNT. I guess I won't ask her what she made in her GMAT.

PlummMeanGreen · September 17, 2016

23 minutes ago, KRAM1 said:

300 according to Dr. Smatresk in the State of the University talk Thursday and they are included. The New College at Frisco is 100% part of the Denton UNT campus. Enrollment expected to grow to 500 soon, and I think I heard somewhere that they are looking for about 2500 over time.

Hey KRAM1! As I said.....I stand to be corrected & thanks for doing just that.

I passed by the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth the other day and the growth of that campus continues to amaze me. I remember when all TCOM was was that main building on the corner of Camp Bowie & Montgomery.

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oldguystudent · September 17, 2016

8 minutes ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

Hmmm. I know someone at work that didn't make the cut a few weeks ago wanting to get her MBA at UNT. I guess I won't ask her what she made in her GMAT.

It's changed. One of our staff just took it, and he gave me a number. I forgot what it was, but it was quite a bit higher.