ENROLMENT at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona is at an all-time high, with 15,398 students enrolled there as at 2005/06 academic year.

The number represents a six per cent increase in the student population in the 2004/05 academic year.

The proportion of students enrolled in first degree programmes was 80 per cent to the 19 per cent of students in higher degree programmes, with the remaining one per cent comprising specially admitted students.

The enrolment figures were presented by principal of the Mona Campus, Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie at a meeting of the Mona Campus Council held in the Council Room on March 9. The Council heard that continuing the established trend set in previous years, the Mona Campus surpassed the targeted 2.4 per cent of annual growth rate in enrollment projected in the university’s strategic plan 2002-2007.

As in previous years, the majority of students are enrolled in the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 7,029.