Northern Arizona University proudly welcomed the largest number of first-year Arizona resident students in its 124-year history as classes began on Monday.
In total, NAU’s incoming class of undergraduate and graduate students numbers more than 9,250. Full highlights of NAU’s 2023 entering class are included below:
All new undergraduate students (first-year and transfer):
- Arizona residents up 3 percent (all locations)
- Flagstaff Mountain Campus up 7 percent AZ resident enrollment
- Statewide sites up 7 percent AZ residents
New first-year students:
- Largest number of Arizona resident students ever
- Largest number of Native American students ever
- Largest percentage of Hispanic/Latine students ever
- Average core high school GPA is higher than last year’s record
- All 15 AZ countries represented
New graduate students:
- International up 30 percent
- Flagstaff up 6 percent
- Personalized Learning up 39 percent
- Phoenix Biomedical Core up 5 percent
Top majors for new undergraduate students:
- Nursing
- Psychological sciences
- Business economics
- Criminology and criminal justice
- Biology and biomedical science
- Computer science
- Exercise physiology
- Elementary education
- Mechanical engineering
- Marketing
