Miami Archdiocesan college units graduation participation document, as enrollment rockets 50% in 5 years, together with a 99% rise for undergrads
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla., Might 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — St. Thomas College (STU) will set a graduation participation document throughout three celebration ceremonies, from Might 8 to Might 10, because the 64-year-old college’s enrollment soars to a brand new excessive.
St. Thomas College college students have a good time their Spring 2023 commencement. The Miami Archdiocesan college will set a graduation participation document with practically 950 graduates throughout three Spring 2024 graduation ceremonies, every at 10 a.m., Might 8-10. The 64-year-old college’s enrollment has soared to a brand new excessive. The college’s fall 2023 enrollment rocketed to six,455 college students, up 50% from 4,302 college students in fall 2018. St. Thomas has set 5 straight enrollment data from 2018 to 2023.
Altogether, 939 college students will take part within the commencements, every beginning at 10 a.m., on the Fernandez Household Heart for Management and Wellness on the college’s Miami Gardens campus. Undergraduates (319) will stroll Might 8, adopted by graduate college students (330, together with 26 doctoral college students) Might 9, and Benjamin L. Crump School of Regulation college students (290) will take part Might 10.
St. Thomas College’s spring graduation participation document breaks an all-time excessive of simply over 930 contributors in Might 2022. In the meantime, extra college students are attending the college than at any time since its 1961 founding, together with the nursing program reaching over 1,200 college students in contrast with simply 31 in 2016.
The college’s fall 2023 enrollment has rocketed to six,455 college students, up 50% from 4,302 college students in fall 2018. St. Thomas has set 5 straight enrollment data from 2018 to 2023, pushed partly by a 99% improve in undergraduates – all since President David A. Armstrong, J.D., took workplace in August 2018.
This graduation season, St. Thomas is also celebrating a number of current achievements, together with:
greater than 400,000 sq. ft of recent services akin to a brand new pupil middle, eating corridor, turf fields, monitor, a dorm, and a constructing for the Gus Machado School of Enterprise.
a tripling of on-campus housing, sufficient to serve greater than 900 residents
the April 2024 starting of building of a brand new 545-bed dorm, together with a further eating facility and eight bowling lanes, all due for completion for the autumn 2025 semester.
the primary workforce nationwide championship in class historical past, an NAIA crown for the Males’s Swimming & Diving workforce, which defeated Keiser College, winner of 5 consecutive nationwide championships.
the addition of recent tutorial applications, together with Utilized Kinesiology, Moral Management, Trend Merchandising & Design, and Culinary and Hospitality Administration, and the approaching creation of a state-of-the-art design middle for the fast-growing style bachelor’s diploma.
the milestone of all undergraduate college students receiving monetary assist from the college.
the second-highest share of legislation faculty college students passing the bar examination in Florida.
the athletic division reaching 32 groups, together with the additions of monitor and subject, swimming and diving, and males’s Rugby, the April winner of the USA Rugby-officiated Division I-AA state title.
St. Thomas College’s enrollment will increase have come whereas American faculties and universities have hemorrhaged greater than 2.6 million college students, lowering 15% to fifteen.4 million from 18.1 million between fall 2010 and fall 2021, federal statistics present. The pandemic exacerbated the enrollment declines.
STU is also rising enrollment at a time when 56% of People say that incomes a four-year diploma is a nasty wager, in accordance with a current survey by the College of Chicago’s NORC analysis institute and the Wall Avenue Journal. The identical survey discovered the best skepticism amongst folks ages 18 to 34.
“It is no surprise why St. Thomas College is bucking the pattern of faculty enrollment declines and convincing college students of our worth, as we steadily turn into one among America’s premier Catholic universities,” President Armstrong stated. “Almost 6,500 college students have flocked right here from 45 states and 65 nations due to the college’s demonstrable value-added training, from our intimate, enriching tutorial setting to our new services and aggressive athletic alternatives.”
About St. Thomas College
St. Thomas College (STU) is a non-public, non-profit Catholic establishment dedicated to the tutorial {and professional} success of its college students who turn into moral leaders in our world neighborhood. Wealthy with cultural and worldwide range, STU is the one Catholic, Archdiocesan college in Florida. On our stunning campus and on-line, the college’s School of Well being Sciences & Expertise, Benjamin L. Crump School of Regulation, Gus Machado School of Enterprise, and Biscayne School for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences supply 61 undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate diploma applications. In 2020, STU launched our Limitless five-year strategic plan, primarily based on the pillars of limitless Devotion, limitless Alternatives, and limitless Outcomes. The plan was conceived to supply college students with a magical collegiate expertise that comes with mentoring college, character formation actions outdoors the classroom, and required real-world expertise earlier than commencement.
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