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OVERLAND PARK -- The University of Kansas Edwards Campus continues to see a steady growth in credit-hour production, indicated by 20th-day fall enrollment figures reported Thursday by the Kansas Board of Regents.
"The campus exceeded last fall's enrollment by 3.11 percent, or 13,185 credit hours," said Bob Clark, vice chancellor of the Edwards Campus.
"We continue to be pleased that our strategy to serve the workforce development needs of greater Kansas City is succeeding," he said. "Even in a time of increasing tuition, the demand for our programs is high."
The schools that experienced the greatest increase in credit hours for this fall include the School of Pharmacy (online PharmD program) with a 33 percent increase; the School of Engineering with a 17 percent increase; and the School of Medicine (health, policy and management program) with a 16 percent increase.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Edwards Campus showed an increase of 32 percent from last fall. This increase can be attributed to significant growth in the undergraduate degree completion program in literature, language and writing (began fall 2001), which had an 85 percent increase in credit hours, and the graduate program in public administration, which had an increase of 70 percent.
Tailoring courses for adult learners, the Edwards Campus offers 22 graduate, undergraduate and certificate programs. Enrollment has grown from several hundred students in the late 1970s in the original facility at 99th Street and Mission Road to 2,100 students a semester on the Edwards Campus, which opened at 126th Street and Quivira Road in 1993. A $70 million campus expansion is under way that will quadruple the size of the campus by adding three buildings.
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