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UC Santa Cruz Facts
  

Total enrollment for fall 2008: 16,613
(15,125 undergraduates: 7,025 men and 8,052 women; 1,488 graduate students).

  • 60 undergraduate majors in arts, engineering, humanities, physical and biological sciences, and social sciences; 37 minors; and 54 concentrations.
  • Ten residential colleges.
  • NCAA Division III teams: men’s and women’s tennis, swimming and diving, basketball, soccer, and volleyball; women’s cross-country and golf.
  • Over 100 student organizations and clubs.

Admission Statistics, Fall 2009  

 

 

ACT Comprehensive (freshmen)

26

ACT–Reading (freshmen)

27

ACT–Mathematics (freshmen)

26

ACT–English with Writing (freshmen)

25

SAT Reasoning–Critical Reading (freshmen)

591

SAT Reasoning–Math (freshmen)

596

SAT Reasoning–Writing (freshmen)

609

SAT Total (freshmen)            1797

GPA (high school–for freshmen)

3.76

GPA (junior college-for transfers) 3.27

(All figures represent the mean. Freshman GPA includes extra points for qualifying honors level course work. For further information, please see Freshman Admission.)

 

Admission Statistics for Out of State Students, Fall 2009

 

ACT Comprehensive

29

SAT Reasoning—Critical Reading

629

SAT Reasoning—Math                       

643

SAT Reasoning—Writing

628

SAT Total

1900

GPA

3.85

 

Ethnic Composition of Undergraduates, Fall 2008

 

Undergraduates

%

New Freshmen

%

African American

396

2.6

112

2.8

American Indian

133

0.9

30

0.8

Asian/Pacific Islander

3,248

21.5

933

23.5

Chicano/Latino

2,606

17.2

734

18.5

European American

7,553

49.9

1,901

47.9

International

67

0.5

15

0.4

Not stated

1,122

7.4

243

6.1

TOTAL

15,125

100

3,968

100

 

Retention and Graduation Rates, 2007-08

    * 90% of first-year students returned to enter their sophomore year at UC Santa Cruz.
    * 49% of students who entered as freshmen graduated in four years.
    * 68% of students who entered as freshmen graduated in six years.