Graduate School enrolls largest new group in 100 years
Yvonne Chiu Hays
Princeton's Graduate School is starting out its centennial year with the largest number of incoming students in its history. The growth is primarily the result of a surge in enrollment in master's degree programs and planned growth of doctoral programs in select areas, school officials said.
Preliminary figures show the number of students expected to enroll for fall 2000 climbed 12 percent over last year, from 508 students to 571 students. Final figures will be available after the semester starts.
"The competition for top-notch graduate students has been fiercer than ever," said David Redman, associate dean for academic affairs in the Graduate School. "Princeton's ability to attract high quality graduate students is a sign of the University's excellence both in traditional areas of study as well as in important, emerging fields in computer science, engineering and public policy."
The incoming group is composed of 556 degree candidates and 15 visiting, non-degree students. The number of master's degree candidates increased 21 percent, from 127 students to 154 students. Of those 154 students, 88 are in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, an increase of five students from a year ago, and 41 are in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, an increase of 22 students from the previous year. The remaining master's students, 22 in the School of Architecture and three in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, stayed at the same levels as last year.
The number of new doctoral students increased by 13 percent, from 356 last year to 402 this year.
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