Facts and Statistics
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College Enrollment Statistics | Incoming Class | Majors in the College | College Students and Study Abroad | Scholarships, Fellowships, & Grants
College Enrollment Statistics
The total enrollment at the Univerisity of Chicago is 14,594 students. Of these, 4,825 are enrolled in the College.
Breakdown by Degree Type
- Full/part-time (degree-seeking): 4,790
- Students at Large (non-degree): 17
- Lab school (non-degree): 18
Enrollment by Race/Ethnic Category (4,642 total)
- Black/African American: 215 (4.5%)
- Asian: 643 (13.3%%)
- Hispanic/Latino: 385 (8.0%)
- Native American: 14 (0.3%)
- White: 2,314 (48.0%)
- International students: 368 (7.6%)
- Multi-racial: 41 (0.8%)
- Unspecified: 845 (17.5%)
College Enrollment by Sex (4,672 total)
- Female: 2,430 (50.4%)
- Male: 2,395 (49.6%)
Incoming Class (new students)
Statistics on the incoming first-year class are available through the Office of College Admissions Web site.
Majors in the College
The College offers 49 majors and 14 minors.
Top Seven Majors by Enrollment
- Economics: 440 (8.3%)
- Biological Sciences: 289 (5.5%)
- Political Science: 216 (4.1%)
- English Language/Literature: 165 (3.1%)
- Mathematics: 178 (3.4%)
- History: 135 (2.6%)
- International Studies: 127 (2.4%)
Additional Major Statistics
- Common Year (First-Year): 1,290 (26.9%)
- Undeclared: 1139 (23.8%)
- Double Majors: 470 (9.8%)
- Triple Majors: 17 (0.4%)
College Students and Study Abroad
Study Abroad offered 43 quarter and year-long programs for the 2007-08 academic year. The College had 448 students participate in a program during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Breakdown by Term
- Academic Year 2007-08: 29
- Summer Quarter 2007: 10
- Autumn Quarter 2007: 201
- Winter Quarter 2008: 126
- Spring Quarter 2008: 81
- Winter/Spring: 1
Additionally, 111 students studied abroad during Summer 2007 on Summer International Travel Grants such as Foreign Language Acquisition Grants (FLAGS) and research grants funded by the College.
Source: College Study Abroad Office (June 2008)
Scholarships, Fellowships, & Grants Received by Students in the College
- Beinecke Brothers Scholarship: 1
- Berliner Abgordnetenhaus Scholarship, since 2002: 3
- Churchill Scholarship: 4
- DAAD Scholarship: 7
- NDSEG Fellowship: 8
- Fulbright US Student Program Grant: 37
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship, since 2000: 3
- Goldwater Scholarship: 35
- Madison Junior Fellowship: 2
- Marshall Scholarship: 8
- Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship: 53
- Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities: 30
- NSEP/Boren Scholarship: 9
- NSF Fellowship: 96
- Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship: 2
- Rhodes Scholarship: 10
- Rockefeller Brothers Fellowship, since 2003: 3
- Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship: 2
- Truman Scholarship: 7
- Udall Scholarship, since 1996: 5
