Lone Star College will not begin summer classes for another 47 days, but already registration reports are indicating an increase in enrollment over the previous summer session.
Overall a 5.1 percent increase in enrollment has been reported by the LSC office of institutional research and effectiveness. Nearly 13,500 students have already enrolled in summer courses system-wide. Lone Star College-Kingwood and Lone Star College-Montgomery have seen the largest gains in enrollment reporting increases of 10.7 percent and 10.4 percent respectively.
Not only are current and future LSC students taking advantage of the convenience and affordability summer courses offer; but also thousands of transient students enrolled in other universities for the spring 2008 semester returning to the Houston area for the summer are enrolling. During the previous summer session 4,473 students from other universities enrolled in classes with the most coming from Texas A&M University at 949.
While most transient students enrolled came from universities throughout the state, a number of national universities were represented including the University of Florida, Pepperdine University and even Harvard University.
Mindy Young will return home to Houston for the summer after receiving an associate degree in agribusiness from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma. She plans to attend Texas A&M University in the fall but is enrolling in a mini-mester college algebra section at Lone Star College-CyFair to improve and replace her previous grade.
“Not only does just three weeks of school appeal to me, it is also more affordable to take it at LSC rather than a university,” said Young.
“I plan to waitress at Texas Roadhouse over the summer and summer classes at LSC are flexible enough to work with my schedule,” said Young.
Registration for summer school will continue through May 31.
Lone Star College System consists of five colleges, including CyFair, Kingwood, Montgomery, North Harris, and Tomball, six centers and Lone Star College-University Center. With more than 49,200 students in credit classes last fall, LSCS is the third largest community college system in Texas. To learn more, visit LoneStar.edu.
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