From MSU Today on Impact Radio: MSU alumnus Jim Cotter is the director of the Office of Admissions at MSU.

Cotter discusses the profile of the 2009 class at MSU.

“Despite the challenges we’re facing as a state and a nation, things are good at MSU right now in terms of enrollment,” Cotter says. “We’re larger than we’ve ever been before in terms of the aggregate population, which is somewhere just slightly north of 47,000.

“Our freshmen target was 7,200, which was intentionally a little smaller than a year ago,” Cotter adds. “This year we came in at 7,208 with about 21 percent out-of-state students, and students of color are very well represented in this very diverse class that includes about 685 international students.”

He analyzes overall trends in university admissions, and he talks about the office’s Detroit outreach efforts. He talks about how the college admissions process has changed over the years. And Cotter gives his vision for MSU’s Office of Admissions.

Hosted by Russ White.

Hear the Conversation 17:20 – 9.9 mb mp3