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Monday, July 28, 2008

Classroom space gets tighter at FGCU, News-Press (Ft. Myers)

By Dave Breitenstein
July 28, 2008

FGCU touts its small classes and individualized attention as a recruiting pitch that has won over many students in past years.

Admissions officers, however, can no longer make that claim.

In the fall 2007, Florida Gulf Coast University’s 30-student per class average was the third highest among Florida’s 10 traditional public universities. Just three years ago,
FGCU had the state’s smallest classes at 22 students each.

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