Enrollment For Fall At HCC Encouraging

Enrollment numbers are looking good as the Huron Community Campus prepares for the fall season. Brenda Dreyer is the Director of University Relations for Northern State University in Aberdeen…

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Through an arrangement with the Huron University Foundation, Huron Community Campus can offer the general studies course for an affordable 40-dollars per credit hour. Similar courses offered at public universites in South Dakota charge 277 dollars per credit hour. Dreyer says specific enrollement numbers won’t be known for awhile…

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Dreyer says the numbers are encouraging to N-S-U…

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Dreyer says working with the Huron Community Campus is helping Northern State to expand its reach…

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The program is designed to allow Huron area residents to obtain generals required for a traditional four-year education, locally to reduce the amount of time students would need to stay on a public university campus. Huron Community Campus already works with Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell to offer a satellte location for their nursing program.