While enrollment at post-secondary institutions continues to decline throughout state, enrollment at Michigan Technological University is has reached an all-time high, said Les Cook, vice president of student affairs and advancement.

A report released in mid-December by the National Student Clearing House looked at all 2015 post-secondary enrollment and found in Michigan a decease of over 22,000 students, or a decline of 4 percent this year. Since the fall of 2013, enrollment in Michigan schools has decreased by 38,000 students, or about 36.5 percent.

But while enrollment is down throughout the state, Michigan Tech showed an increased enrollment of 1.9 percent for the 2016 school year, Cook said.

“The 15 public institutions in Michigan, and the directors of admissions of those institutions, share numbers pretty frequently throughout the course of the year,” Cook said, “and in the fall they do a report that shows where everybody ended up.”

Michigan Tech’s total undergraduate enrollment was 4,717 students, while for the 2016 school year, it increased to 4,909.

Enrollment also increased at the graduate student level. Enrollment for 2015 was 1,361 graduate students, and increased to 1,498 applications for 2016.

Cook is quite pleased with the increase.

“I think that we should be proud of Michigan Tech,” he said, “because these numbers indicate that we have the highest percentage of overall growth compared to the other public institutions.”

Cook credits the efforts of all departments on Michigan Tech’s campus for the university’s continued growth.

“If you think about Michigan Tech and where we’ve consistently been,” he said, “we’ve been consistently growing, and I think that it bodes well, not only for the things the institution is doing, but the recruitment efforts of everybody on campus. It’s not just admissions. It’s the things that we do, the messages that we send. It’s the interactions that we have with employers and industry and all those things coupled together.”