New matriculants from the Provincial school system comprise approximately 90 percent of Memorial's first year undergraduate students. The number of students with incoming averages in excess of 85 percent has increased significantly over the past few years. The mean entering average is 81.1 percent. There has been a 100 percent increase in the number of graduate students since 1980. Memorial has awarded over 60,000 degrees since becoming a degree granting institution in 1949.
Memorial students win many prestigious national and international awards.
Memorial University students have dominated the Royal Bank Business Student Writing Awards and Concordia International MBA Case Competitions. Memorial's proportion of Newfoundland's research and development is increasing, in contrast to the university proportion in Canada as a whole. Strengthening Academic Programs We are developing a standard review procedure for programs and units, preparing plans for key units and developing programs related to the oil and gas sector. Building the Faculty Memorial's current faculty complement is largely the result of the growth of the University in the 70s and 80s. We are taking steps towards a complement planning system for academic units and negotiating a new collective agreement with the faculty association which should improve our capacity to recruit good new faculty members.