BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Colleges and universities around North Dakota are seeing high enrollment numbers.

Officials at the North Dakota University System said this is the highest enrollment they have seen since 2014. More than 47,000 students are attending North Dakota institutions this semester, which is just short of the NDUS record in 2011 at almost 49,000.

All 11 of the NDUS institutions have seen this growth in students.

“What you’ll see is a general increase amongst dual credit high school, general increase amongst undergrads, a general increase amongst online only, nothing spiking any more than the rest, but it’s a general increase of what we’ve been seeing over the last few bienniums, last few years,” said Brent Sandford, commissioner of higher education.

But especially Bismarc

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