> SFU beats enrolment targets for fall term
SFU beats enrolment targets for fall term
Contact:
Kate Ross, Registrar, 778.782.4176, kuross@sfu.ca
Joanne Curry, Director, SFU Surrey, 778.782.4514, joannec@sfu.ca
Julie Ovenell-Carter, PAMR, 778.782.4323, joc@sfu.ca
Carol Thorbes, PAMR, 778.782.3035, cthorbes@sfu.ca
Kate Ross, Registrar, 778.782.4176, kuross@sfu.ca
Joanne Curry, Director, SFU Surrey, 778.782.4514, joannec@sfu.ca
Julie Ovenell-Carter, PAMR, 778.782.4323, joc@sfu.ca
Carol Thorbes, PAMR, 778.782.3035, cthorbes@sfu.ca
August 31, 2007
First-year enrolment at Simon Fraser University is six per cent above target even though there are fewer Grade 12 graduates in B.C. Despite changing demographics, SFU will welcome 5,169 new students at its three campuses in Burnaby, Vancouver and Surrey this September.
“We are delighted to have exceeded our new-student enrolment targets,” says Kate Ross, registrar and senior director of student enrolment at SFU.
“Our student residences are completely full and our new-student orientation sessions were oversubscribed. In fact, we will be offering extra mini-orientations throughout the first week of classes to make sure all incoming students are properly supported.”
This fall SFU’s newest campus at Central City in Surrey will welcome 665 new first-year students—a 37 per cent increase over last year. Enrolment figures at Surrey are also well above projections in arts (five per cent over target), business (300 per cent over target), and science (50 per cent over target).
Surrey campus director Joanne Curry attributes the significant increases to “a growing awareness that SFU’s Surrey campus provides a supportive learning environment that’s close to home as well as to the resources of one of Canada’s leading research universities.”
The average admission GPA for BC Grade 12 students registered at SFU this fall is 84.4 per cent.
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“We are delighted to have exceeded our new-student enrolment targets,” says Kate Ross, registrar and senior director of student enrolment at SFU.
“Our student residences are completely full and our new-student orientation sessions were oversubscribed. In fact, we will be offering extra mini-orientations throughout the first week of classes to make sure all incoming students are properly supported.”
This fall SFU’s newest campus at Central City in Surrey will welcome 665 new first-year students—a 37 per cent increase over last year. Enrolment figures at Surrey are also well above projections in arts (five per cent over target), business (300 per cent over target), and science (50 per cent over target).
Surrey campus director Joanne Curry attributes the significant increases to “a growing awareness that SFU’s Surrey campus provides a supportive learning environment that’s close to home as well as to the resources of one of Canada’s leading research universities.”
The average admission GPA for BC Grade 12 students registered at SFU this fall is 84.4 per cent.
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