ABERDEEN, S.D. – Student retention continues to increase at Northern State University, with the university’s freshmen to sophomore retention rate climbing to 77 percent this fall after a significant increase last year.
Also trending upward is Northern’s headcount—the fall 2017 number is 3,611, an increase from 3,587 in fall 2016, according to figures released Wednesday from the South Dakota Board of Regents. That includes an undergraduate headcount of 3,162 students, an increase over 3,075 in fall 2016. The number of full-time equivalent students, both… more