UNM has compiled its final figures for summer school enrollment totals for 2002. Overall, main campus trends continued with very little change in the total number of undergraduate and graduate students attending classes.
However, UNM's branch campuses, such as Los Alamos, Gallup and Taos, experienced large changes in the total number of students taking courses.
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UNM main campus
Overall, the total number of students attending summer school courses at the main campus is up slightly from 2001 totals.
The totals of undergraduate students increased by a small amount, from 5,901 in 2001 to 6,051 in 2002 and the number of graduate students taking summer classes dropped by nearly 100 from 2,317 in 2001 to 2,219 this year.
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Students taking summer courses on the main campus registered for 488 more credit hours than student in last year's summer courses.
Students at the UNM main campus averaged a 4.82-credit course load over the summer school session.
The number of freshmen attending summer school classes increased by 20 percent while the number of sophomores decreased by 13 percent. Numbers for juniors and seniors both increased marginally.
Females constituted nearly 61 percent of all undergraduate and non-degree seeking students in UNM main campus summer courses.
The college with the greatest summer school enrollment increase was the College of Nursing with a 63 percent increase of 101 students, up from last year's total of 62.
The only graduate program to experience a large change in enrollment totals from last year was the College of Education's graduate program. The total number of student decreased from 850 to 753, an 11 percent drop.
Just less than 60 percent of the 8,270 students who attended summer courses answered 'White, non-Hispanic' when asked for their ethnicity. Hispanic was the second-largest ethnic group on campus representing nearly 27 percent of summer school students. American Indian students made up more than five percent of the population, blacks were listed at slightly less than three percent and Asian students represented more than 3 percent.
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UNM branch campuses
The branch campus with the largest summer school increase was the Taos campus with the total number of students jumping from 231 to 526 - a 128 percent increase. More than 275 of the 526 students taking courses at the Taos branch reported 'no response' when asked what their ethnic background was.
The UNM Gallup branch's enrollment numbers jumped from 731 in 2001 to 955 this year. That 31 percent increase is due in part to 200 additional American Indian students registered for classes this summer.
UNM's Los Alamos branch experienced a six percent decrease while the Valencia branch reported a 12 percent increase in total enrollment numbers.
