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ENROLLMENT REACHES HISTORIC MILESTONE
New Lancers gather in the Van Dyne Gym during New Student Orientation.
Fall 2011 enrollment at California Baptist University posted the largest one-year numerical increase in the institution’s history, spiking nearly 15 percent above the previous year’s enrollment figure. President Ronald L. Ellis reported the record enrollment of 5,413 students at the annual fall meeting of the CBU Board of Trustees. The figure represents an increase of 698 over the previous record of 4,715 students enrolled in fall 2010. Enrollment numbers include 173 international students representing 16 countries including China, Rwanda, South Korea, India, Vietnam, France, Germany, United Kingdom Great Britain, Australia, Romania, South Africa, Nigeria, Croatia, Canada, Hungary and Taiwan. Students studying under CBU’s Rwandan partnership total 54 this academic year. CBU’s fall 2011 enrollment marks the 11th consecutive year of growth at the university and the 15th year-to-year increase since Ellis became president in 1994.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS EXPAND California Baptist University continues to grow the quality and breadth of its academic programs and began offering eight new undergraduate majors this fall. The School of Allied Health has added the following majors: Clinical Health Science, Communication Disorders, Health Education, Health Care Administration and Pre Physical Therapy. Other new majors include Psychological Anthropology, Public Relations and Construction Management.
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CBU AMONG BEST IN U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT’S 2012 RANKINGS California Baptist University is named among “America’s Best Colleges” for the sixth straight year in a national ranking by U.S. News & World Report magazine. CBU tied for the 46th position as a “Best Regional University,” improving the 48th place ranking it shared with another institution last year. The U.S News & World Report rankings appear in the 2012 edition of the “America’s Best College” guidebook and online at www.usnews.com.
JOURNALISM PUBLICATIONS WIN NATIONAL AWARDS California Baptist University student publications captured their first ever Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers (ACP/CMA) awards at the annual national convention in October in Orlando, FL. In CBU’s first ACP/CMA competition,The Banner newspaper placed second in the four-year non-weekly category. Angelos yearbook took fifth place in its category of yearbooks less than 300 pages. The second issue of Pursuit magazine captured seventh place in the feature magazine category. The national college media convention is the largest gathering of college and university journalists and advisers in the world.