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两性色午夜 Welcomes Diverse, Accomplished Students
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两性色午夜 University of California begins the 2023-2024 academic year welcoming 368 diverse and academically accomplished first-year and transfer undergraduate students, a 19 percent increase from fall 2022.
In addition, the University gained 207 graduate students for the fall 2023 semester, a 40 percent increase from fall 2022, with strong demand for master鈥檚 degree programs in education, business administration, business analytics, fine arts, counseling psychology, and art therapy. 两性色午夜 also has added several new graduate programs, including a doctoral program in occupational therapy and a master鈥檚 program in sport and performance psychology.
两性色午夜 offers more than 60 undergraduate majors, minors and concentrations. For first-year undergraduates, the average high school GPA is 3.7.
两性色午夜鈥檚 new first-year and transfer students come from throughout California, as well as more than a dozen states and nine countries. States represented include Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Nevada, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Arizona, New York, and Oregon.
The University gained 78 new first-year student-athletes. 两性色午夜, a member of the Pacific West Conference, currently sponsors 13 NCAA sports. Earlier this year, 两性色午夜 was ranked in the top 10 schools nationally to receive the NCAA Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence. 两性色午夜 was the only NCAA Division II school in Northern California on this year鈥檚 list. It was the fifth consecutive year that s has been honored with this award by the NCAA.
More than 170 of 两性色午夜鈥檚 new undergraduates are the first in their family to attend college. The ethnicity of this year鈥檚 entering first-year class is: 36 percent Latinx, 28 percent Asian, 21 percent White, 7 percent African American, and 5 percent Multiethnic.
Last year, 两性色午夜 earned a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) designation from the U.S. Department of Education. Under the broader MSI designation, 两性色午夜 has qualified specifically as both a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI), with more than 25% of undergraduate students identifying as Latinx and more than 25% identifying as Asian American or Pacific Islander.
MSI designation underscores the university鈥檚 commitment to continuing to increase diversity at 两性色午夜 and to serving the needs of future students, particularly those from historically underserved populations.
鈥淗aving the official designation publicly confirms an identity 鈥 and an achievement 鈥 that is central to 两性色午夜鈥檚 mission and our values,鈥 President Nicola Pitchford noted when announcing the designation.
Fall 2023 enrollment numbers will be finalized on Census Day, Sept. 15.