UPDATED: April 9, 2019 at 12:26 p.m.

Syracuse University boasted a record number of first-year applicants for the fall 2019 semester — a total of 35,155 applicants, according to an SU News release.

As students across the world are deciding on which colleges to attend, here is what the student body looked like at the start of the 2018-19 academic year, according to fall 2018 census data from SU. The data was compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and is based on a fall enrollment survey.

Race/ethnicity

SU had 15,226 undergraduate students at the time of the census. More than half of that population is white.

Asian students comprised nearly 7% of the undergraduate student body, black or African American students made up 6.5% and Hispanic or Latino students were 9.1% of undergraduates.

The second-largest race or ethnicity listed was “Nonresident Alien,” or students who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and have not passed the green card or substantial presence test, according to the IRS. They comprised 13.5% of SU’s undergraduates.

Approximately 3% of undergrads at SU identified as being of two or more races. One-half of a percent of SU undergraduates are American Indian or Alaska Native, and one-tenth of a percent identified as being Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.

The race and ethnicity was unknown for 3.3% of students in the census.

White students were the majority of the population in the College of Law and among graduate students. In the College of Law, white students made up 64.5% of students, while 44.2% of graduate students were white. Nonresident Aliens were the second-largest group at both the College of Law and among graduate students, at 10% and 32.3%, respectively.

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Here are the breakdowns by race and ethnicity at the College of Law and among graduate students:

College of Law

•American Indian or Alaska Native: 0.0%

•Asian: 5.2%

•Black or African American: 7.3%

•Hispanic or Latino: 8.8%

•Native American or Other Pacific Islander: 0.1%

•White: 64.5%

•Two or more races: 1.7%

•Nonresident Alien: 10%

•Race/ethnicity unknown: 2.4%

Graduate students

•American Indian or Alaska Native: 0.3%

•Asian: 4.7%

•Black or African American: 7.8%

•Hispanic or Latino: 5.9%

•Native American or Other Pacific Islander: 0.2%

•White: 44.2%

•Two or more races: 2.4%

•Nonresident Alien: 32.3%

•Race/ethnicity unknown: 2.2%

Gender

More than half — 54% — of the undergraduate population at SU was female, per the Fall 2018 Census. More than 8,000 students were counted as female. The remaining 7,000 undergraduates were listed as male. There was no number indicating the percentage of nonbinary, agender or gender nonconforming people at SU.

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Females also outnumbered males in the College of Law, with 54.6% of students counted as females. Of the 592 students total in the law school, 269 of them were counted as male. Of graduate students, the number of male students exceeded the number of female students — 51.9% versus 48.1%, respectively.

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Pell Grant status

Pell Grants are subsidies given by the federal government to help students, typically undergraduates, pay for college. They are limited to students with an “exceptional” financial need who have not earned a bachelor’s, graduate or professional degree, according to the Department of Education.

Only 17.4% of undergraduate students at SU are recipients of Pell Grant aid, which is 2,645 students out of more than 15,000 undergraduates.

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Tuition at SU for first-year students in fall 2018 was $50,230, and total direct costs were $67,403. Tuition increased another 3.9% for the 2019-20 academic year, totaling $52,210 for students who did not come to SU before the fall 2018 semester, according to an SU News release.

The increased price, compared to $48,780 in tuition for students enrolled prior to fall 2018, is a result of the Invest Syracuse fundraising initiative. Invest Syracuse charges a $3,300 tuition premium as part of an initiative to invest $100 million into research, the student experience and increasing opportunity for students of historically marginalized and underrepresented communities.

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this post, the number of undergraduate students at the time of the census was misstated. The Daily Orange regrets this error. 

Published on April 8, 2019 at 11:33 pm

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