Texas A&M University - 2005 Fall Enrollment Update

09/26/2005

Texas A&M University's 2005 fall enrollment of 44,647 includes, for the second consecutive year, double-digit gains in enrollment of minority freshmen –African Americans, Hispanics and Asians-Americans - according to unofficial first-class day enrollment figures released Aug. 31.

Hispanic students in the freshman class have for the first time exceeded 1,000 - now standing at 1,012, an increase of 15 percent compared to last fall. African-American freshmen total 259, for a gain of 19 percent, and entering Asian-American students total 331, up 20 percent.

More than 20,000 applications for admission at the freshman level were received this year, of which more than 6,800 of the applicants are enrolled—an acceptance ratio of approximately one in three. In addition, approximately 28 percent of the students in the freshman class are the first in their families to attend college, and half of the freshman class is comprised of students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

For the full story, please visit: http://tamus.edu/systemwide/05/09/campus/tamu.html.

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