Enrolment figures released Friday show that UPEI is bucking the regional trend.
The figures from the Association of Atlantic Universities suggest that enrolment at universities in the Atlantic provinces decreased overall in the last year by 0.4 per cent, but UPEI’s student population went up by 2.6 per cent.
The growth at UPEI was led by a 4.5 per cent jump in full-time undergraduate students, and an increase in full-time international students of 12.8 per cent.
The total number of students at UPEI is now 4,549, up from 4,433 from last year.