Delaware State University has set another school enrollment record.
DSU has 4,505 students enrolled for the 2013 fall semester. That’s 80 more than the previous record established last fall and marks the first time ever Delaware State has surpassed 4,500 students.
Delaware State also topped 4,000 thousand undergraduate students for the first time with 4,061 and added a record 288 transfer students.
University president Harry Williams also noted the credentials of the 922 member freshman class.
“In addition to another year of record enrollment, our academic quality continues to increase,” said DSU President Harry Williams in a statement. “This year our incoming freshmen have an average grade point average of 3.0, the highest ever at DSU.”
Williams added that increasing enrollment at Delaware State, which jumped from 13th to 9th in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the nation, is in part due the state's commitment to the school, specifically funding for 484 Inspire Scholarship students.
“Because the Delaware legislature and governor made the funding possible for the Inspire Scholarship, the state is a contributor to the record enrollment we had over the last few years,” Williams said in his statement.
