Demographics of Fall 2006 students

Fall 2006 Demographics of Fredonia’s student body

(Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning):

Academic interests and majors

• College of Arts & Humanities: 1,880 students (1,810 undergraduates and 70 graduate students)
• College of Education: 807 students (623 undergraduates and 184 graduate students)
• College of Natural & Social Sciences: 2,029 students (1,951 undergraduates and 78 graduate students)
• Continuing Education: 17 students (all undergraduates)
• General Studies: 384 (all undergraduates)
• Interdisciplinary Studies: 273 students (262 undergraduates and 11 graduate students)
• School of Business: 610 students (608 undergraduates and 2 graduate students)  
• School of Music: 555 students (513 undergraduates and 42 graduate students)

 Living on campus

• A total of 2,550 (50.4 percent) of undergraduates live in the residence halls and .03 percent of graduate students do.  
• Of all residence hall students, 40 percent are freshmen, 34.8 percent are sophomores, 17.5 percent are juniors and 7.4 percent are seniors. 
   
• Most SUNY Fredonia students carry a full-time course load (91.8 percent).  Among undergraduates, 94.9 percent are full-time. Among graduate students, 47.6 percent are full-time. Note: full-time at the graduate level is nine or more semester credit hours and at the undergraduate level is 12 or more.

Diversity

• African Americans in student body: 2 percent
• Asians in student body: 2 percent
• Hispanics in student body: 2.5 percent
• Native Americans in student body: .6 percent
• Non-U.S. Residents in student body: .1 percent
• Other ethnicity: .7 percent
• Unknown: 8 percent
• Whites in student body: 84.2 percent

Geographic Origins

• Approximately two-thirds of Fredonia undergraduates come from one of six New York state counties (Erie--23.7 percent; Chautauqua--19 percent; Monroe—13 percent, Cattaraugus--4 percent; Niagara--3.6 percent; Onondaga--3.3 percent) .
   
• Slightly less than 85 percent of Fredonia’s graduate students come from one of four New York state counties (Chautauqua-– 48.9 percent; Erie--23.4 percent; Cattaraugus – 8.2 percent, Monroe – 4 percent) .
   
• 109 students (101 undergraduates) come from some other U.S. state, with another 67 students (65 undergraduates) coming from one of 15 different foreign countries.

 Class distribution

• Total Freshmen: 1,181 (23.4 percent of all undergraduates; 21.9 percent of total Fall 2006 enrollment)
• Total Sophomores: 1,196 (23.7 percent of all undergraduates; 22.2 percent of total Fall 2006 enrollment)
• Total Juniors: 1,423 (28.2 percent of all undergraduates; 26.4 percent of total Fall 2006 enrollment)
• Total Seniors: 1,246 (24.7 percent of all undergraduates; 23.1 percent of total Fall 2006 enrollment)
• Total Graduate students: 349 (6.5 percent of total Fall 2006 enrollment