The number of undergraduate students at the University of Glasgow's Crichton Campus in Dumfries has more than doubled over the past three years.

BBC: Dumfries Crichton Campus undergraduate numbers double

As a result, the number of Chinese undergraduate students in the U.S. has doubled in the past two years.

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M, entitled Online Tutoring: A New Retention and Remediation Solution, found that while the number of students enrolling in undergraduate degree programs has increased 34 percent from 2000 to 2009, the number of those students who are unprepared for college has increased proportionately.

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Last week, the Obama Administration announced that increasing the number of students who receive undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by 1 million over the next decade has been formally designated as a Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goal one of a limited number of such articulated goals designed to focus cross-agency coordination and encourage sharing of best practices among agencies with complementary missions.

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The number of postgraduate research students is expected to rise under the plan but the question of whether undergraduate numbers should be cut is said to be left open.

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The big increase will be in the number of MSc in Management programmes, which usually admit students straight from their undergraduate studies, rather than at the MBA level, the latter being designed for those with several years' business experience.

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