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[Ron Force]

All the state's HE schools, except BSU and CSI, have lost enrollment as compared to last spring. NIC blames it on the improving job market as students leave school for full-time employment. Vocational enrollment showed the greatest losses, which would tend to corroborate that outlook.

All the schools (except BSU) showed losses in academic full-time student enrollment.

http://www.boardofed.idaho.gov/statistics/students/index.asp
 
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Ron Force          Moscow ID USA
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It is absurd to suggest that job availability has anything to do with UI’s decreased enrollment. I won’t speculate why UI’s enrollment is down other than to say that well-publicized internal problems at UI as well as the increased quality and popularity of other universities in the state has more to do with it than a lack of part-time jobs in Moscow. There are likely other relevant factors of which I am unaware. (I still think that UI is the best state university in Idaho, by the way!)