Quest University's incoming class is 51 per cent larger than last year's, pushing the four-year-old university's total enrolment to 350 students, university officials announced this week.
One-hundred forty-six students make up the incoming Class of 2015 that has enrolled at the university this fall, officials said in a statement issued on Sept. 8.
"We are certainly thrilled to see such a significant increase in enrolment this year," David J. Helfand, president of Quest, said in the statement. "It is a testament to how hard our faculty and staff have worked to fulfill the vision of this new university over the past four years. It is a very encouraging indication that this marvellous experiment is working, and the secret is out."
Quest graduated its first class this past April, with degrees bestowed upon 49 young men and women who took a huge leap of faith in deciding to attend a university that barely existed, officials said.
A total of 21 countries are represented in the incoming class, with 43 per cent of the students from Canada (of whom 49 are from B.C.), 35 per cent from the U.S., and the remaining 22 per cent including students from Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mali, Netherlands, Nepal, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, the U.K. and Venezuela.
The incoming class includes 146 students plus seven exchange students from Quest's international partner universities. Quest is designed for a maximum of 650 students to maintain the small class sizes (maximum 20 students) and a high faculty-to-student ratio, university officials said.
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