So far, no university has announced major plans to expand undergraduate numbers.
Yale is also considering whether to expand undergraduate enrollment to about 6,000 students from the current 5,300.
When ERIC POPKIN, a sociologist specializing in Latin America, joined the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College two years ago, he dreamed of expanding undergraduate study abroad beyond Europe to Cuba.
UCL has not said that it will be expanding undergraduate numbers, and perhaps like LSE it will focus increasingly on graduate education.
With the completion of a $1.1 billion fund-raising campaign and a plan to expand undergraduate enrollment by 10percentt, Dr. Harold T. Shapiro, the president of Princeton University for 13 years, said yesterday that he would step down next summer.
"Essentially, we've got a higher education sector which has got a shrinking group of 17- and 18-year-olds and with universities trying to expand undergraduate numbers it is generally easier for people with BTecs than it was a few years ago," she says.
The Conservatives campaigned on allowing universities to expand undergraduate student numbers.
In the years following World War II, increasing prosperity and enlightened government policies led to rapidly expanding undergraduate programs that created new opportunities for countless young people.
With greatly enhanced public and student interest in global health, many universities are introducing or expanding undergraduate courses in public health, including environmental health, nutrition and health, epidemiological surveillance of emerging infections, health policy, and behavioral and socioeconomic determinants of health.
As a result of these and other studies, numerous colleges, universities, and funding agencies have invested significantly in expanding undergraduate research opportunities (Boyd and Wesemann, 2009).
