Freshmen surge helps Augustana break 165-year-high enrollment records

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The number of students working toward degrees at a 165-year-old, faith-based university in central Sioux Falls is at an all-time high.

And it’s not just total enrollment that broke the Augustana University student body record — incoming freshmen and undergraduate student counts are also setting new marks for the storied private school.

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