BASED ON data obtained from the Registrar’s Office, the university has a total enrolment of 11,638, considered the biggest in the university’s history.

Of the said figure, undergraduate degree programs account for 9680 or 83.18 percent of the total university population. Graduate program registrants number 406 (3.72%); short-term programs, 19 (0.16%); secondary level, 723 (6.21%); elementary, 612 (5.25%); and pre-school, 166 (1.43%).

The College of Business, Economics, and Accountancy (CBEA) records the biggest enrolment with 2,203 or 18.92 percent of the total student population. Coming in second is the College of Engineering with 1,669 (14.34%); followed by the College of Health Sciences, 1,571 (13.50%); College of Industrial Technology, 1,399 (12.02%); College of Teacher Education, 1,330 (11.43%); College of Arts and Sciences, 708 (6.08%); College of Agriculture, Food, and Sustainable Development, 662 (5.69%); College of Aquatic Sciences and Applied Technology, 93 (0.80%); and College of Law, which is only on its second year of operation, 50 (0.43%).

The industrial technology program listed the highest enrolment at 1,068, followed by the nursing and elementary education programs with 836 and 755, respectively.

University enrolment increased by 4.18 percent from last year. CAS grew by 18 percent even as the development communication and environmental science programs were moved to CAFSD. At CAS, the program with the biggest enrolment is computer science.

New enrollees at the College of law include a medical doctor, two nurses, two dentists, and several MMSU faculty members. Two freshmen students are husband and wife.

Freshmen students in the Batac campus attended an orientation program June 7 at the Teatro Ilocandia. Separate orientation programs were held in the Laoag campuses on other dates.

Three freshmen are Chinese nationals. Two enrolled at CoE and one at CBEA. This brings to four the number of foreign students in the university, the highest ever in the undergraduate level. CTE also has one Chinese student. Now on his third year, he is taking up B. Secondary Education major in English.

The number of students in the first semester, AY 1998-1999, was higher at 11,791, but the figure was bloated by enrolment at the secondary level which accounted for 20.7 percent. At that, time MMSU still had secondary schools in Currimao, Dingras, and Paoay. They were transferred to the Department of Education in 2001.