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Show Number of total UTC graduates increased 66 percent Fall enrollment figures and a miosis of survey data were Wed to Utah Technical College tProvoOrem Institutional Council Imbers last evening, pointing to a !tal headcount, as of Oct. 12, of 280 students, up from 4,130 in the Fall of 1979- Also included in the report of an , jjqc committee under the Lection of Dr. Douglas Warner, o,-alp vinp pr,"'-J?r. for academe affa.rs, was an analysis ot the Assoc.ate of Science degree which is currently in a three-year pilot program. ' Graduates with an Associate of Science degree increased by 136 percent from the 1981-82 school year to the 1982-83 year. However the majority of students attending the college list other reasons for attendance at-tendance including the Associate of Applied Science, 34 percent; certificates cer-tificates of completion, 29 percent; transfer to another institution of higher education, 15 percent; and personal interest, 11 percent. Total graduates from the college increased 66 percent over the past two years. During the 1982-83 school year, students changing their majors moved from general education to vocational areas in 33 percent of the cases, while vocation;, students changed their emphasis to general education in only 17 percent of the cases. Some 50 percent of the changes were from one vocational program to another, according to the committee's findings. According to the Ltah State Board of Regents, the college must maintain a 25:75 ratio comparing individual courses, weighted by average credit for each general education and vocational course. The college maintained a 15.7 percent general education offering during the Spring of 1983 quarter, which was well below the 25 percent maximum level. This Fall the full time equivalent student count (a total of all credit hours divided by 15) is 5,266, which must average out to a 4,900 student limitation over the 19R3-84 school J. year. Utah 'ountv stuuents mak ' up 73 percent of le studentbody with other l '-akdowns o include: 89 percent rom I'tah, percent from other states in the U.S.: and 3.5 percent from Ion 411 1 umtries. There are 3.8io males attending the collepe 1 2. 'HO females registered .-tud represent every county in I'lii. |
