Enrollment Figures

The College has reached record levels in students enrolled for both undergraduate and graduate studies. Official figures for the fall term show a total of 3152 undergraduates, 63 of whom are abroad on foreign study plans or otherwise in absentia, and 536 graduate students. Last fall the figures were 3058 undergraduates and 445 in graduate study.

Contributing to the rise in the undergraduate ranks was the fact that 123 men in the Classes of 1959 through 1965 elected to return to complete studies toward the A.B. degree, an increase of 31 in this classification over last year. There are fewer in the new Class of 1969, 793 as compared with last year's freshman class of 812; the sophomore and junior classes of 771 and 731, respectively, are about the same as last year; but the senior class this term numbers 710, a substantial increase over the 647 in the Class of 1965 on campus this time last fall.

The Medical School registered an increase of 20, mostly in the post-doctoral category (fellows, interns, and residents); Thayer School jumped from 45 to 64 in its graduate programs; and Tuck School had a modest increase from 205 to 216.

Full-time students enrolled in other graduate programs had a dramatic jump from 32 to 97 but there was a corresponding dramatic fall in the number of part-time graduate students from 49 to 11 this fall.

J. Michael McGean '49, new Secretary ofthe College, speaks at Dartmouth Night.