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Texas students help make up for enrollment losses at Oklahoma colleges

Old Main at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville campus.
Anna Pope
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KUAF
Old Main at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville campus.

This story was written by KUAF's Anna Pope in collaboration with StateImpact's reporter Robby Korth. 

As Northwest Arkansas is growing, so is the University of Arkansas. The university is expecting the largest freshman class and total student enrollment in its history. Texans had the second-highest enrollment numbers at the U of A in 2021, and as the total number of students enrolled in Oklahoma's higher ed institutions has declined each year during the pandemic, the number of Texans increased. Read more here on StateImpact's website.

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Anna Pope is KUAF's growth impact reporter and a Report for America corps member
Robby Korth joined StateImpact Oklahoma in October 2019, focusing on education reporting.
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