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Graduate Registration
Tripled In Ten Years

Registrations in the University's
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences have nearly tripled in the
last 10 years.

Registrations this fall in the
University's largest graduate school
totaled 1,212 as compared to 426
in the fall of 1959, according to
statistics released Saturday by the
University.

Similarly, the number of doctorates
earned in the graduate
school has risen from 39 granted
during the 1958-59 session to 89 in
1968-69, a 130 per cent increase. In
the same period, the total number
of doctorates awarded by the
University increased more than
three times, from 43 to 155.

"Virginia and the South have
been lagging in the production of
Ph.D.'s." We hope that the University's
sustained efforts will help us
meet the needs of Virginia college
graduates, industry and teaching,
especially for the community college
system," said Dr. Dexter
Whitehead, dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences.

In the area of admissions, 2,973
persons applied for the 1969-70
session, 1,525 of whom were
offered admission. The three departments
in which the largest
numbers of applicants showed interest
and subsequently had the
largest enrollments were English,
history and government and foreign
affairs.

Entering students this fall in the
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences actually number 457, 49
with master's degrees. Forty-seven
per cent of them are enrolled in the
departments of English, government
and foreign affairs and history.
Forty-two different universities
and colleges are each represented
by at least three alumni
among those entering, while
another 45 are represented by two
graduates, 166 by one. By state, the
largest number of these institutions
is 117, from Virginia, with 52 from
New York.

Of the 755 returning graduate
students this fall, 48 per cent hold
master's degrees.