Fourteen percent are Graduate Students
Eighty-four percent of Freshman live on campus
Average annual enrollment growth
- Last 25 years....4.8%
- Last 5 years......1.7%
Freshman Class 2000 2010
- High School GPA 3.3 3.5
- ACT Composte Score 22.9 24.0
Forty-one percent of entering GVSU Freshman are first generation college students. They typically:
- Are less confident in academic skills and ability to succeed in college
- Have weaker social connections at school
- Have much less certainty about ability to pay for college
- Are more homesick
- Have a lower first-year persistence rate
- Have a lower graduation rate
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