Strategic Plan

The UNH Strategic Plan – An Overview
Preparing for the Next Hundred Years: Strategies for our Future

A Case for Investment and Change
UNH currently supports four schools with more than 80 programs at the undergraduate level and more than 25 at the graduate level on a base of 3,944 FTE (full-time equivalent) students and a faculty of 257 FTE. Student majors are not distributed uniformly, with heavy concentrations in a few areas of excellence and disproportionately small concentrations in the core Arts and Sciences disciplines. In addition, current student persistence and retention rates result in the loss of over 55% of the entering freshman class during their stay at UNH.

Despite these challenges, UNH has long been committed to engaging students in “active learning” and offering hands-on experience, a strategy just recently being adopted by many competitors and in high demand among employers. UNH should more fully become a mid-sized comprehensive university built on a strong undergraduate foundation. Therefore, the plan calls for UNH to grow its enrollment to 5,200 FTE (3,200 undergraduate, 2,000 graduate) by fall 2011, and to add an additional 400 FTE undergraduates to that figure by fall 2016. Simultaneously UNH will endeavor to increase the percentage of undergraduates residing on campus from the current 65% to 75%, and offer more full-time graduate programs.

The UNH plan calls for investments in four Strategic Directions: Strategic Direction I, Strategic Direction II, Strategic Direction III, and Strategic Direction IV.