Overall enrollment at UC Berkeley has increased by about 300 students since last fall, bringing the total number of students to over 36,000, according to data released Wednesday by the campus.
The data shows a numerical increase in enrollment for almost every ethnic category, including underrepresented minorities, over the past year. The number of first-year international student enrollments increased as well.
The number of transfer student enrollments, which also jumped since last fall, experienced a similar increase in underrepresented minorities and international students.
Overall, the numbers fall in line with last year’s data, according to campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.
The number of freshman international students enrolling annually has increased since 2007, from 2.8 to 13.7 percent. This year marked a 2.3 percent increase since last year.
The percentage of underrepresented minorities — which includes African American, Hispanic and Native American students — had been on the decline in newly enrolled freshmen, from 15.2 percent of newly enrolled freshman in 2007 to 13.9 percent in 2010. This semester, the percentage increased for the first time since 2007 to 14.3 percent.
Among newly enrolled transfer students, the percentage of underrepresented minorities has also increased since last year, from 18.8 to 20.7 percent.
“We are pleased to see some increases in the number of underrepresented students, as well as transfer, international and other students,” Gilmore said in an email.
This year, the percentage of white, newly enrolled freshmen at UC Berkeley is 27.1 percent — a 3.3 percent decrease since 2009, according to the campus data. White students comprise 34.7 percent of newly enrolled transfer students — up from 32.9 percent last year.
Additionally, students of Asian descent compose about 42.3 percent of newly enrolled freshmen on campus — a nearly 2 percent increase over last year. Only 23.5 percent of newly enrolled transfer students on campus are of Asian descent — down from 27 percent last year.
Systemwide, underrepresented minorities made up about 27 percent of California resident freshmen who enrolled in fall 2010, and newly enrolled white freshmen made up around the same percentage, according to data from the UC Office of the President. Systemwide data for fall 2011 is not yet available.
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Ya, fuck white people!
They only built the entire system and are responsible for its history, prestige, and continued financial existence. We must continue this noble displacement campaign until underrepresented minorities head every department and there are no whites left. It’ll be a Utopia, like Detroit or Haiti!
The Middle Class, primarily whites, are the only underrepresented group when academic accomplishments and ability are part of the consideration.
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If admissions took place without regard to affirmative action, front door or back door, as practiced at Berkeley, and college tuition and fees were calculated, without awarding a free education to every low income California applicant who happens to apply, while charging a 40% premium to students from middle income families over the limit to qualify for grant type financial aid, to help finance the free education offered to students from low income families, primarily Asians, making the education of students from middle income families even more unaffordable, whites would be at about 65%, Asians about 30% and presently overrepresented minorities about 5%.
Something needs to be done to reform the way the costs of UC and other higher education tuition and fees are being apportioned in California. At the present time, there is no charge to students from families making under $80,000 per year, while those over the limit pay not only their own tuition and fees but also that of students from families making below the limit, effectively slamming the door on a UC education to a majority of the largest segment of California graduating high school students academically eligible for a UC education.
Just curious…how did you come up with the race distribution of 65% Whites, 30% Asians, 5% Minorites should ”affirmative action” not be considered? What/where did you obtain your data? What assumptions did you use?
Why not just run a meritocracy and eliminate the need to count this crap. Another result from having race, gender, ethnic studies non academic programs. More wasted resources.
You and a few other mediocre posters are qualified to start your very own Mediocrity….
A stylistic point: Even lame rhetorical questions should end with a question mark.
Do you think your screen name is clever?
As usual, Kenneth gets snippy because he can’t bear to have others criticize his cherished Politically Correct views, but can’t offer any argument to refute others and support his own position.
Wonderful. An overcrowded, overstrained, monumentally resource-constrained, bursting-at-the-seams campus increasing enrollment.
Can we please reduce the number of students on campus? Gee whiz.