Final enrollment
figures for fall 2000 undergraduate and graduate students at
the University of California, Berkeley
30
Nov 2000
Contact:
Janet Gilmore, Media Relations
MEMO
TO REPORTERS
Final enrollment
figures for fall 2000 undergraduate and graduate students
at the University of California, Berkeley, are now available.
An overview of the final enrollment numbers can be found below
(new freshman enrollment | graduate
enrollment). Additional detailed data on undergraduate
enrollment is available on the Web at http://osr.berkeley.edu.
Among the
highlights is an increase in female students in both the undergraduate
and graduate school populations. Female students represent
52.2 percent of the campus's total undergraduate population
- the highest female non-wartime percentage ever. There are
11,849 female undergraduates, 10,829 male. And for the first
time ever, there are more women than men entering UC Berkeley
as new graduate school students. There are 1,225 males and
1,230 females.
Overall,
however, there were no significant enrollment changes compared
to last fall. Among the data:
* There
are 3,735 students in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from
3,618 students in the fall 1999 class. In addition, 1,530
new transfer students came to UC Berkeley in fall 2000, down
from 1,650 in fall 1999.
* There
are 148 African American students in the fall 2000 freshman
class, up from 126 last fall. Among Chicano/Latino students,
there are 320 in the freshman class, down from 330 last year.
There are 20 American Indian students in the fall 2000 class,
two fewer than last year.
* There
are 1,122 white students in the fall 2000 freshman class,
up from 1,111 last fall. Among Asian American students - a
broad category that includes eight subcategories of ethnicities
- there are 1,629 students in the fall 2000 freshman class,
up from 1,583 last fall.
* Vietnamese
students and Filipino students, who are included in the "Asian
American" category, continue to make gains in enrollment.
There are 151 Vietnamese students in the fall 2000 freshman
class, up from 129 in fall 1999, and 98 in fall 1998. Among
Filipino students, there are 135 in the fall 2000 freshman
class, up from 129 in 1999, and 104 in 1998.
* In all,
there are 22,678 undergraduate students on campus, down from
22,705 last fall. Among graduate students, 2,455 new graduate
students enrolled on campus, up from 2,397 in fall 1999. Overall,
there are now 8,599 new and continuing students enrolled in
the campus's 102 graduate programs, down from 8,642 last fall.
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NEW
FRESHMAN REGISTRANTS BY ETHNICITY Fall
1995 - Fall 2000
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
CITIZENS
& IMMIGRANTS
American
Indian/Alaska Native
63
52
23
14
22
20
Asian/Asian-American/Pacific
Islander
Chinese/Chinese-American
681
776
764
789
783
776
East
Indian/Pakistani
119
130
143
163
134
160
Japanese/Japanese-American
67
65
65
81
70
58
Korean/Korean-American
204
204
252
240
229
230
Filipino/Filipino-American
58
76
86
104
129
135
Pacific
Islander
10
9
10
14
10
12
Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American*
86
79
98
129
151
Other
Asian
129
86
69
76
99
107
Asian
Subtotal
1268
1432
1468
1565
1583
1629
African-American/Black
222
233
257
126
126
148
Hispanic
Mexican/Mexican-American/Chicano
412
389
390
191
222
227
Other
Spanish-American/Latino
119
160
82
80
108
93
Hispanic
Subtotal
531
549
472
271
330
320
White/Caucasian
1018
1090
1018
1090
1111
1122
Other
47
60
76
48
61
63
No
Ethnic Data
151
196
187
540
294
341
Citizen
& Immigrant Subtotal
3300
3612
3501
3654
3527
3643
INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS
105
96
72
81
91
92
TOTAL
FRESHMEN
3405
3708
3573
3735
3618
3735
*The
Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American ethnic category was first
used in the fall 1996 application form. Before fall 1996,
Vietnamese students were included in the Other Asian category.
TOTAL
GRADUATE ENROLLMENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
FALL 1995 - 2000
