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LAWRENCE -- Spring enrollment at the University of Kansas rose slightly this spring with 26,894 students on all campuses, according to figures released by the Kansas Board of Regents today, Feb 21.
KU's spring enrollment has risen consistently for the past six years. The university now enrolls 1,139, or 4.4 percent, more students than it did in 1997.
Total KU spring enrollment for the past six years:
Spring 2002: 26,894
Spring 2001: 26,857
Spring 2000: 26,545
Spring 1999: 26,297
Spring 1998: 26,214
Spring 1997: 25,755
At the Lawrence campus, 24,719 students enrolled this spring, compared with 24,502 in 2001 and 24,209 in 2000. Lawrence campus totals include enrollment at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park as well as at the Public Management Center (formerly the Capitol Complex) in Topeka. At the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., 2,175 students enrolled this spring, compared with 2,355 students in spring 2001 and 2,336 in spring 2000.
Information about Edwards Campus enrollment is available online.
Spring 2002 enrollment at all Kansas Board of Regents universities increased by 2,161 students to 79,562, a 2.8 percent increase over the spring semester 2001.
Spring 2002: 79,562
Spring 2001: 77,401
Spring 2000: 76,872
Spring 1999: 76,036
Spring 1998: 75,627
KU remains the largest university in the regents system. About 34 percent of the students enrolled at a regents university are at KU.
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