Demographics of Fall 2007 students

(Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning) 

Academic interests and majors

• College of Arts & Humanities: 1,889 students (1,820 undergraduates and 69 graduate students)
• College of Education: 763 students (600 undergraduates and 123 graduate students)
• College of Natural & Social Sciences: 2,052 students (1,975 undergraduates and 78 graduate students)

  Orientation Summer 2007

• Continuing Education: 16 students (all undergraduates)
• General Studies: 329 (all undergraduates)
• Interdisciplinary Studies: 354 students (345 undergraduates and 19 graduate students)
• School of Business: 609 students (all undergraduates)
• School of Music: 591 students (487 undergraduates and 104 graduate students)

Living on campus

• A total of 2,554 (50.2 percent) of undergraduates live in the residence halls.
• Of all residence hall students, 40.8 percent are freshmen, 35.3 percent are sophomores, 15.4 percent are juniors and 8.5 percent are seniors.
• Most SUNY Fredonia students carry a full-time course load (93.2 percent). Among undergraduates, 96.4 percent are full-time. Among graduate students, 47.5 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: 2.6 percent
• Asians in student body: 2.1 percent
• Hispanics in student body: 2.7 percent
• Native Americans in student body: 0.6 percent
• Non-U.S. Residents in student body: 0.1 percent
• Other ethnicity: 0.9 percent
• Unknown: 6.1 percent
• Whites in student body: 84.9 percent

Geographic Origins

• Approximately two-thirds of Fredonia undergraduates come from one of seven New York state counties (Erie--23.6 percent; Chautauqua—18.5 percent; Monroe—12.3 percent, Cattaraugus-4.2 percent; Niagara--3.5 percent; Suffolk – 3.2 percent; Onondaga--3.2 percent) .
• Slightly more than 80 percent of Fredonia’s graduate students come from one of four New York state counties (Chautauqua-– 47.2 percent; Erie--26.4 percent; Cattaraugus – 5.3 percent, Monroe – 3.3 percent) .
• 111 students (106 undergraduates) come from some other U.S. state, with another 63 students (55 undergraduates) coming from one of 12 foreign countries.

Class distribution

• Total Freshmen: 1,188 (23.4 percent of all undergraduates; 21.9 percent of total Fall 2007 enrollment)
• Total Sophomores: 1,213 (23.9 percent of all undergraduates; 22.4 percent of total Fall 2007 enrollment)
• Total Juniors: 1,351 (26.4 percent of all undergraduates; 24.8 percent of total Fall 2007 enrollment)
• Total Seniors: 1,333 (26.3 percent of all undergraduates; 24.6 percent of total Fall 2007 enrollment)
• Total Graduate students: 339 (6.3 percent of total Fall 2007 enrollment

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