{"id":212488,"date":"2012-09-13T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212488"},"modified":"2012-09-14T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:47:57","slug":"letu-enrollment-grows-6-per-cent-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212488","title":{"rendered":"LETU Enrollment Grows 6 Per Cent on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=212489\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-212489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/thumb_LeTourneau-University-logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_LeTourneau-University-logo\" width=\"146\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-212489\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 LeTourneau University\u2019s 12th class day enrollment for Fall 2012 revealed a growth of six percent in the total number of traditional students over last year with a total of 1,360 students over last year\u2019s total of 1,283, according to LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford.  LETU officials say much of that is due to the new class of first time in college and transfer students, who totaled 439.  That&#8217;s one of the university\u2019s largest incoming classes, and represents a 13.4 percent growth over last year&#8217;s incoming class of 387.  This year the university is also reporting that it has seen a 64 percent increase in international students, with 92 enrolled this year, over 56 enrolled last year.  The number of dual credit students has risen from 16 to 53.<\/p>\n<p>Online enrollment is the highest ever, totaling 1,067 students, which is up from 1,025 last year.   Grad school enrollments are also up with 393 students enrolled, over 359 last year, which is attributed to the growth in the number of graduate programs being offered.  Total university enrollment is 2,843. <\/p>\n<p>Retention is also up at LETU.  The university is reporting that its one-year retention rate of 79 percent is the highest it has seen in over a decade, and the overall retention rate is 89 percent, which rose significantly since last year\u2019s 82.9 percent. \u201cAnytime a university achieves a one-year retention rate of nearly 80 percent, it makes a clear statement from students that their experience at LeTourneau is outstanding and that the value of their investment is worthy,\u201d Lunsford said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 LeTourneau University\u2019s 12th class day enrollment for Fall 2012 revealed a growth of six percent in the total number of traditional students over last year with a total of 1,360 students over last year\u2019s total of 1,283, according to LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford. LETU officials say much of that is due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LETU Enrollment Grows 6 Per Cent on Campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 16:32:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212488"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212672,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212488\/revisions\/212672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}