{"id":29796,"date":"2022-03-25T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/world-tb-day-at-spu-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:38:24","slug":"spu-increases-first-year-student-enrolment-by-80-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-increases-first-year-student-enrolment-by-80-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"SPU exceeds first-year registration target and increases applications by 83%"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"29796\" class=\"elementor elementor-29796\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-21ffb65e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"21ffb65e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3614ca48\" data-id=\"3614ca48\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bfc468 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bfc468\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite a challenging economy and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\">Sol Plaatje University<\/a><\/span> (SPU) registered 1\u00a0650 first-year students in 2022, an increase of 80% over 2021\u2019s figure of 917 first-years. The 1\u00a0650 new first-year registrations also exceeds the target of 1\u00a0516 first-year registrations set for 2022.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Office of the University Registrar reported that SPU also received the highest number of applications for enrolment in the University\u2019s eight-year history, with a combined 19\u00a0420 applications received for undergraduate and postgraduate placements.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This 83% increase (against 2021\u2019s figure of 10\u00a0606 applications) has had a further positive impact, with SPU meeting its enrolment targets for the first time in many years. The University is encouraged to see that 3\u00a0557 students (undergraduate and postgraduate) are enrolled so far for the current academic year. This figure is 29.5% higher than in the 2021 academic year, in which 2\u00a0746 students were enrolled.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 3 298 of the 3 557 students registered were undergraduate students, and 259 postgraduates (this number is likely to increase, as postgraduate registrations remain open until 31 March 2022).<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are encouraged to see the demand for an SPU education continues to be strong, and this augurs well for the future of our young University,\u201d SPU Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Andrew Crouch said. \u201cWhat is even more encouraging is the diversity of the applicants \u2013 we now have students from all nine of South Africa\u2019s provinces, and some international students from SADC countries. 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