 Bemidji State University is welcoming more than 50-100 students to campus for the third consecutive year, a total fueled by the university's highest fall-to-fall retention on record. Nearly three-quarters of the university's first-time students, 72.4 percent, have returned to campus this year. That's the highest percentage since retention data is available beginning in 2004. In total, BSU's fall 2018 enrollment stands at 5,136 students. It's the fourth consecutive year and eighth time in the past 10 years that the university has enrolled more than 5,000 students on the 30th day of fall classes. Breaking down the numbers a little further, BSU's graduate enrollment continues an upward trend with a 12.1 percent increase, giving the university more than 400 students there. New on-campus undergraduate enrollment, which includes freshmen, transfer students, post-secondary enrollment options students, and others also has increased to 1,051 students. The number of BSU students identifying as American Indian, Native, Hawaiian, Asian, Black, or African American or Hispanic or Latino has grown to 731, a 4.9 percent increase. And BSU's population of international students has also grown to 119, that's a 4.4 percent increase. Overall, BSU's total number of students taking online courses has grown for the tenth consecutive year to a record 2,263 students.