Enrollment trends college enrollment Enrollment statistics

1. Freshman Class of 2009 The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Freshman enrollment presentation prepared with information from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment from Fall Terms 2005-2009.

2. 3717 New Full Time Students 3698 Full time Students = 99.5% 19 Part Time Students = .5% 50.39% Male 49.61% Female

3. Racial Population DemographicsDiversity increasing 81% Identify themselves as white (5% decrease from 2008) 10% Identify as African – American (3% increase from previous year) 3.7% Identify themselves as Asian (1% increase from 2008) 2.3% Identify themselves as Hispanic Unchanged 1.6% (400% increase in this demographic over last 4 years 17-59) identifying themselves as American Indian 1.1% in overall student population (59)

4. 2009 Freshman Class Racial Composition

5. 2009 Freshman Class age follows same trend since 2005 60% Freshmen continue to be 18 (66% of women and 50% of men) 37% are 19 Only 18 were under 18 (18 students) (.5%) 27 were 20 (.7%) 30 students (.8%) were older than 20

6. Freshman enrollment by College 3717 new students enrolled in similar ratios since 2005 More than 2% increase in Engineering enrollment (36 students) Offset by decreases in Business, Arts & Sciences, Architecture & Design, Communication and information, and Nursing. Arts & Sciences continue to enroll a third of enrollees, followed by Undeclared students, Business Administration, Engineering, Education (Health & Human Services), Communication & information, Agriculture, Nursing, Architecture & Design, and Social Work

7. 2009 Freshman College Distribution

8. Average ACT score = 26.44.9% above national average, again! 60% of all students scores range between 26-32 36.5% Students scores range between 21 and 25 4% (148) students scores range between 16 and 20 Average ACT score increased every year from 25.6 in 2005

9. 69% of Freshman - 3.5 or higher GPA 23.9% graduated high school with a 3.0 -3.49 % GPA 5.6% enter freshman year with 2.5 – 2.99% High School GPA 1.2% (35 students) enter freshman year with a high school GPA of less than 2.49% Female students continue to enter college with more students in the 3.5-4.0 range.

10. 88.8% 2009 Freshman class are Tennessee Residents 9.8% (366) are identified as students from other states. 1.3% (50) students are from other nations.

11. 30% Freshman register for 14 semester hours 24.4% (908) registered for 15 hours 18% (667) registered for 16 hours 13.9% (517) registered for 13 hours 5.95% (221) registered for 17 hours & 5.38%(200) for 12 hours