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Final enrollment figures for fall 2000 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, are now available. An overview of the final enrollment numbers can be found below (new freshman enrollment | graduate enrollment). Additional detailed data on undergraduate enrollment is available on the Web at http://osr.berkeley.edu.

Among the highlights is an increase in female students in both the undergraduate and graduate school populations. Female students represent 52.2 percent of the campus's total undergraduate population - the highest female non-wartime percentage ever. There are 11,849 female undergraduates, 10,829 male. And for the first time ever, there are more women than men entering UC Berkeley as new graduate school students. There are 1,225 males and 1,230 females.

Overall, however, there were no significant enrollment changes compared to last fall. Among the data:

* There are 3,735 students in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from 3,618 students in the fall 1999 class. In addition, 1,530 new transfer students came to UC Berkeley in fall 2000, down from 1,650 in fall 1999.

* There are 148 African American students in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from 126 last fall. Among Chicano/Latino students, there are 320 in the freshman class, down from 330 last year. There are 20 American Indian students in the fall 2000 class, two fewer than last year.

* There are 1,122 white students in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from 1,111 last fall. Among Asian American students - a broad category that includes eight subcategories of ethnicities - there are 1,629 students in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from 1,583 last fall.

* Vietnamese students and Filipino students, who are included in the "Asian American" category, continue to make gains in enrollment. There are 151 Vietnamese students in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from 129 in fall 1999, and 98 in fall 1998. Among Filipino students, there are 135 in the fall 2000 freshman class, up from 129 in 1999, and 104 in 1998.

* In all, there are 22,678 undergraduate students on campus, down from 22,705 last fall. Among graduate students, 2,455 new graduate students enrolled on campus, up from 2,397 in fall 1999. Overall, there are now 8,599 new and continuing students enrolled in the campus's 102 graduate programs, down from 8,642 last fall.

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NEW FRESHMAN REGISTRANTS BY ETHNICITY
Fall 1995 - Fall 2000  

			1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
CITIZENS & IMMIGRANTS
American Indian/Alaska Native			63	52	23	14	22	20
Asian/Asian-American/Pacific Islander
	Chinese/Chinese-American		681	776	764	789	783	776
	East Indian/Pakistani		119	130	143	163	134	160
	Japanese/Japanese-American		67	65	65	81	70	58
	Korean/Korean-American		204	204	252	240	229	230
	Filipino/Filipino-American		58	76	86	104	129	135
	Pacific Islander		10	9	10	14	10	12
	Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American*			86	79	98	129	151
	Other Asian		129	86	69	76	99	107
	Asian Subtotal		1268	1432	1468	1565	1583	1629
African-American/Black			222	233	257	126	126	148
Hispanic
	Mexican/Mexican-American/Chicano		412	389	390	191	222	227
	Other Spanish-American/Latino		119	160	82	80	108	93
	Hispanic Subtotal		531	549	472	271	330	320
White/Caucasian			1018	1090	1018	1090	1111	1122
Other			47	60	76	48	61	63
No Ethnic Data			151	196	187	540	294	341
Citizen & Immigrant Subtotal			3300	3612	3501	3654	3527	3643
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS			105	96	72	81	91	92
TOTAL FRESHMEN			3405	3708	3573	3735	3618	3735
*The Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American ethnic category was first used in the fall 1996 application form. Before fall 1996, Vietnamese students were included in the Other Asian category.

TOTAL GRADUATE ENROLLMENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
FALL 1995 - 2000

Asian	Fall 1995		Fall 1996		Fall 1997		Fall 1998		Fall 1999		Fall 2000
Asian	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Asian	1012	12.0	1,008	11.9	1,038	12.1	1,046	12.1	983	11.4	947	11.0
Filipino	98	1.2	89	1.1	80	0.9	79	0.9	77	0.9	75	0.9
African Amer	344	4.1	345	4.1	314	3.7	281	3.3	262	3.0	261	3.0
Hispanic	536	6.3	528	6.3	511	6.0	498	5.8	460	5.3	456	5.3
Nat Amer	59	0.7	61	0.7	71	0.8	56	0.6	42	0.5	46	0.5
Caucasian	4,764	56.4	4,678	55.4	4,664	54.5	4633	53.7	4543	52.6	4424	51.4
International	1,127	13.3	1,213	14.4	1,339	15.7	1422	16.5	1587	18.4	1682	19.6
Other/Unk	514	6.1	517	6.1	535	6.3	610	7.1	688	8.0	708	8.2
TOTAL	8,454	100.0	8,439	100.0	8,552	100.0	8,625	100.0	8,642	100.0	8,599	100.0

NEW GRADUATE ENROLLMENT

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