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The 11 state institutions of the State University System of Florida received a record number of graduate school applications for the fall semester.� 54,065 applied to graduate programs this fall.� That compares with 47,674 who applied in fall 2006, an increase of 13.4 percent.� 53 percent were accepted in 2007.� In 2006, the acceptance rate was 56 percent.� State leaders believe the economic downturn is partly responsible.

�We have more prepared students competing for the same or fewer number of seats, said Chancellor Mark Rosenberg of the State University System of Florida.� “So we�re spending a lot of time to figure out here at the Board of Governors how we can grow our access to our students without diminishing the quality.� They need quality because they need to be competitive, not only on I-95 and on I-10, but globally.”

For the fall semester, overall enrollment in the state�s 11 public universities went up 2 percent, to 299,570 students.