Enrollment at the University of Colorado at Boulder has hit another all-time high for degree-seeking students this fall with a total enrollment of 26,035, according to Barbara Schneider, executive director of enrollment management.
The freshman class is 12 percent higher than in 1999 but the rate of growth in overall enrollment this year is smaller than in previous years. Decreases in graduate student and transfer student enrollment have offset gains in undergraduate enrollment.
The fall 2000 increase of 379 students over fall 1999 reflects an increase of 1.5 percent. Fall 1999 enrollment was 25,656. The fall 2000 freshman class is 5,095, an increase of 529 students over the 1999 freshmen enrollment total of 4,566.
New freshmen students from Colorado are up 7 percent this fall to 2,822, the highest number ever. New freshmen non-resident student numbers also are up to their highest level at 2,273, reflecting a significant increase in the proportion of admitted students who enrolled, according to Lou McClelland, director of institutional analysis.
Degree-seeking graduate student enrollment dropped by 101 students this fall from 4,453 in 1999 to 4,352 for fall 2000. The number of new graduate students for fall 2000 is 1,226, or 7 percent lower than last year.
Transfer student enrollment also is down this fall by 89 students from 1,439 in 1999 to 1,350 this fall.
The total number of resident degree-seeking students for fall is 17,503, or 0.5 percent more than in fall 1999. Non-resident degree seeking students total 8,532 for fall 2000, compared to 8,246 in 1999.
The ratio of resident to non-resident students is 67 percent to 33 percent, putting CU-Boulder well within the three-year average ratio required by the state for resident and non-resident students.
Minority student enrollment is slightly higher than last year with 3,369 degree-seeking minority students enrolled for fall 2000 compared to 3,341 in fall 1999. The percentage of minority students in fall 2000 is the same as it was in fall 1999 -- 13 percent of the student body. Minorities among new freshmen from Colorado increased to 509, or 18 percent, from 457, or 17 percent, in 1999, with double-digit percentage increases for Asian American, American Indian and Hispanic/Latino students.
The most popular majors continue to be psychology, communication, English and the two biology majors 聳 environmental, population and organismic biology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Psychology is the largest single major with 1,431 students.
Among CU-Boulder undergraduates, 11 percent, or 2,511, carry two majors and 112 are enrolled in joint bachelor聮s-master聮s degree programs.