From CBC PEI:

The number of students looking to attend UPEI this fall is up by more than 30 per cent, according to the university.

Robert Gilmour, UPEI's vice-president academic and research, said overall application numbers are up more than 30 per cent while, international applications are up more than 100 per cent, Canadian applications are up six per cent and P.E.I. applications are up three per cent.

"Given the fact that we have historical rates of conversion of applications to actual students showing up at the door, we're very encouraged that we're going to have an increase in our enrolment come this fall," Gilmour said.

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