Location: St. George
Role/mission: Undergraduate level with emphasis on certificate programs, associate degrees and selected baccalaureate degrees. Applied technology courses are designed primarily to meet employer needs. No graduate-level course work is offered unless provided as outreach from a higher-level institution. Faculty are expected to average 24 credit hour equivalents annually in the classroom.
Admission requirements: Open enrollmentwith all incoming students tested for placement and advising purposes. Remedial courses are available. Students must meet admissions criteria for upper-division courses and programs.
Enrollment 2002-03: 7,473 head count.
Degrees granted 2001-02: Certificates, 211; associate degrees, 801; baccalaureate, 37; total 1,049.
Tuition and fees 2002-03: Resident, $1,612; nonresident, $6,038.
President Robert Huddleston: "Our strengths are our people and our academic programs. We have an excellent reputation for preparing students to transfer to upper-division courses that we don't offer. Another of our biggest assets is the level of community support we have. The support is excellent and it helps us with fund raising. Our challenge, like that of all our state institutions right now, is funding. We are losing good employees, and that is very discouraging."