Quality and enrollment both increase at Southwestern

September 11, 1998

The new first-year class at Southwestern University is setting new records at Texas' first institution of higher education.

Three-hundred-seventy-eight (378) first-year students joined Southwestern's student body in August, the largest freshmen class ever in the history of the university. Last year, 333 entered. Total enrollment this year at Southwestern is 1,256. Last year the number was 1,215.

While the university does not seek to increase enrollment, the first-year class expansion offsets last spring's graduation of the largest senior class in Southwestern's history-284. Southwestern's Board of Trustees has set the ideal enrollment for the Georgetown school at or near 1,200.

Quality indicators also have increased with the new first-year class. Fifty-five (55) percent of entering freshmen ranked in the top ten percent of their high school classes, shadowing last year's record of 52 percent. Eighty-four (84) percent ranked in the top quarter of their high school classes. Average SAT scores also increased from 1217 to 1250.

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