First-year enrolment is down but overall enrolment at UVic is up once again according to Oct. 31 winter session registration figures compiled by Records Services. The overall headcount is 17,519, up 2.1 per cent over last year. The undergraduate headcount is 15,327, up 1.6 per cent over last year's 15,083 total and the graduate headcount is 2,192, up 5.9 per cent.
First year undergraduate enrolment is 2,675, down 4.2 per cent from last year. At 3,343, second year enrolment is down 1.1 per cent but third year enrolment of 3,875 (up 8.7 per cent) and four-year enrolment of 3,651 (up 2.8 per cent) reflects the record-setting first year enrolments of three and four years ago.