Enrollment Increases for Spring Semester

With the spring semester in full swing, students enrollment has increased at Southern University, according to figures released by the Registrar’s Office.
This semester, a total of 8,408 students are attending classes on the Baton Rouge campus. That is an increase of 108 students from last spring’s count.
The increase in enrollment is accredited to several departments on campus designed to assist students throughout their academic career.
The goal of the Student Retention Center is to enhance the university’s ability to retain students and improve the graduation rate.
The Basic Freshman Studies Program and the Career Counseling, Planning and Resource Center gives guidance to students from the time they are freshmen until graduation to insure that they return back to the university year after year with no problems.
Junior Division assists students in accomplishing their academic endeavors until they transfer into their senior college or school within the university.
“My advisor helped me pick my schedule when I first got accepted into school and we still have a strong relationship even though I have already transferred out of Junior Division,” said Erika Dilworth, a sophomore biology major from Nashville.
In the fall of 2001, SU moved from an open admissions policy to selective admission.
Incoming freshmen must have at least a 2.2 grade point average, a minimum score of 17 on the ACT and completed 13 units of mathematics, english, natural sciences, social sciences and electives in high school.
“I really haven’t noticed a difference in the population on campus but I know that it’s good since a lot of people were not able to be admitted to school since we went to selective admissions,” said Tamara Washington, a freshman from Monroe majoring in english.
The university is required by the state of Louisiana to issue an official listing of each semester enrollment total.