Record Enrollment, Campus Housing Expansion Set Tone for New Year at HPU
High Point University continues its extraordinary growth with numerous milestones as it kicks off a new academic year. With classes starting today, the university welcomes 1,600 new students, the largest group of new students in history, and the largest total enrollment in history at 6,000 total students.

The number of new students this year now exceeds the total enrollment of 2005, when HPU President Nido Qubein began leading HPU through a total transformation. HPU’s enrollment and programs have since multiplied every year.

HPU is also launching new academic programs in several fields, including nursing, while constructing new facilities such as its largest upperclassman housing expansion.

“Students and families from across the nation and the world are increasingly attracted to our stellar academic programs and commitment to student success,” says Qubein. “Our future remains bright, and we continue marching onward and upward with faithful courage.”

Here’s a glimpse at the milestones HPU has achieved this year:

Largest Upperclassman Housing Expansion: Consistently ranked for best student housing options, HPU recently opened 32 new student houses for 140 students, including an innovative new tiny home community. Construction is underway for Panther Commons, which will house 400 undergraduate and graduate students and provide several more restaurant and retail options. The additional housing will support growing enrollment, as 95% of students live on campus. Nearly 3,300 upperclassmen are assigned to university-owned housing, ranging from traditional dorms to apartments, condos, townhomes, suites and houses. These new housing options reflect HPU’s holistic approach to the entire academic journey.

New Academic Programs: The university welcomes its first cohort of undergraduate nursing students this fall, and graduate-level biomedical sciences majors joined HPU over the summer. These programs are designed to prepare leaders to meet the growing demands of health care.

Other New Majors, Minors and Programs Include:

- Cybersecurity Major

- Data Science Major

- Operations Minor

- Supply Chain Management Minor

- Healthcare Administration Master’s Degree

New graduate majors include a master of healthcare administration program. In addition to the master of business administration program, students have the option of diving deeper into one or more of these three areas of concentration:

- MBA with a concentration in healthcare management,

- MBA with a concentration in business analytics and

- MBA with a concentration in supply chain management.

New Academic Schools and Facilities Underway: Qubein’s expansion announcement in March of historic gifts totaling $100 million from three families supports creation of the

- New academic facilities for new graduate-level schools

- Construction of a new 150,000-square-foot library

- An enclosed parking garage

Qubein also unveiled a $400 million academic expansion to be completed by the end of the 2024-2025 academic year, HPU’s Centennial Anniversary. 

In addition to law, dental and nursing schools, the university plans to build facilities for optometry and entrepreneurship on its main campus. These additions will bring the number of academic schools to 14, up from just three schools in 2005. Additional campus improvement projects include completion of a $25 million parking garage with 1,200 spaces.

In September 2019, Qubein unveiled HPU’s $1 billion, 10-year growth plan, which included $300 million in new construction and $700 million in scholarships focused on first generation students, diversity, academic excellence and veterans. Even during the pandemic, the university welcomed its largest total enrollment and largest graduate student enrollment to date.