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SALT LAKE CITY -- The recession is getting credit for getting more students to enroll or stay in college.
The Utah Board of Regents says enrollment grew by about 8 percent in the fall and winter semesters statewide.
Commissioner of Higher Education Bill Sederberg believes most of that is directly attributed to the economy.
"You could expect maybe a 2 to 3 percent growth, but with the economic downturn it's giving us about another 5, 5 and a half percent," he said.
Sederberg says it's clear more people are staying in school as well, with fewer jobs to lure people away, and some stimulus money adding to things like Pell grants.
He says long term that's a good thing for the state, even though colleges have had to deal with higher enrollment and less funding.
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