Largest Freshman Class in History Expected

[gstein]

<p>Not new news, but interesting article.</p>

<p>[Largest</a> Freshman Class In History Expected - Texas A&M University News & Information](<a href=“http://dmc-news.tamu.edu/templates/?a=7796&z=15]Largest”>http://dmc-news.tamu.edu/templates/?a=7796&z=15)</p>

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Texas A&M’s overall freshman class is expected to approach 8,200, which would be an all-time high for the state’s oldest public university and may become the largest single-campus freshman class in the nation.</p>

<p>Murano points out, for example, that Texas A&M is ranked No. 1 nationally by “Smart Money” magazine for “payback ratio”—the earnings levels of an institution’s graduates compared to what they paid in tuition, fees and related costs for their undergraduate educations.</p>

<p>Assistant Provost for Enrollment Alice Reinarz reports Texas A&M received a record number of applications – over 26,000 – for its Class of 2013, with African-Americans and Hispanics accounting for 28 percent of the total. She said that prompts her to project that more than 300 African-American and more than 1,400 Hispanic students will be in that freshman class.</p>

<p>Texas A&M has consistently been rated as a “best value” in such publications as “U.S. News & World Report” and “Kiplinger’s Personal Finance,” among others, university officials note.

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