Enrollment Data and collegeboard.com

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<p>In working with another poster, we think we may have uncovered some discrepancies in the reporting for some colleges between the graduate student enrollment and what we knew to be the true numbers. What we found is that the professional schools (Law and Business) may not be included in some of the collegeboard.com data. </p>

<p>Could you please give us a hand now and take a peek at the data below and if your school or a school you know well is on there, could you please check the numbers and post any corrections? Thanks.</p>

<p>Undergrad enrollment, Grad enrollment, Total Enrollment, School</p>

<p>4760, 2010, 6770, Princeton
6715, 10010, 16725, Harvard
5333, 4852, 10185, Yale
864, 1222, 2086, Cal Tech
6422, 10285, 16707, Stanford
4127, 6126, 10253, MIT
9730, 6712, 16442, U Penn
6330, 5350, 11680, Duke
4807, 5834, 10641, U Chicago
4085, 1352, 5437, Dartmouth
5260, 17740, 23000, Columbia
7386, 4715, 12101, Wash U StL
13562, 5181, 18743, Cornell
8153 7824, 15977, Northwestern
6010, 1756, 7766, Brown
4478, 1646, 6124, J Hopkins
3049, 2070, 5119, Rice
6646, 4080, 10726, Emory
6378, 3925, 10303, Vanderbilt
8352, 2646, 10998, Notre Dame
23863, 9007, 32870, UC Berkeley
5669, 4451, 10120, Carnegie Mellon
6853, 4490, 11343, Georgetown
25555, 14526, 40081, U Michigan
14676, 7693, 22369, U Virginia
25432, 10901, 36333, UCLA
16729, 13950, 30679, USC
4995, 2977, 7972, Tufts
17124, 8254, 25378, U North Carolina
4332, 1393, 5725, Wake Forest
3304, 2009, 5313, Brandeis
5734, 1360, 7094, W & M
4743, 2115, 6858, Lehigh
9020, 3842, 12862, Boston College
20965, 16477, 37442, NYU
4904, 3539, 8443, U Rochester
30055, 8832, 38887, U Wisconsin
21369, 4589, 25958, UC SD
12361, 5575, 17936, Georgia Tech
4080, 3928, 8008, Case Western
31472, 10211, 41683, U Illinois UC
5193, 2240, 7433, Rensselaer
27836, 9886, 37722, U Washington
20719, 4088, 24807, UC Irvine
6533, 2305, 8838, Tulane
3002, na, 3002, Yeshiva
23458, 4072, 27530, UC Davis
18212, 2870, 21082, UC S Barbara
35110, 11439, 46549, U Florida
36613, 6180, 42793, Penn State
37037, 11101, 48138, U Texas</p>

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<p>Surprisingly, state universities have a larger ratio of undergraduate students than private universities.</p>

<p>University of California-San Diego 82% undergrads
College of William & Mary 81% undergrads
Brown University 77% undergrads
University of Wisconsin-Madison 77% undergrads
University of Notre Dame 76% undergrads
Wake Forest University 76% undergrads
Dartmouth College 75% undergrads
Johns Hopkins University 73% undergrads
University of California-Berkeley 73% undergrads
Cornell University 72% undergrads
Boston College 70% undergrads
Princeton University 70% undergrads
University of California-Los Angeles 70% undergrads
Lehigh University 69% undergrads
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 67% undergrads
University of Virginia 66% undergrads
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 64% undergrads
Tufts university 63% undergrads
Brandeis University 62% undergrads
Emory University 62% undergrads
Vanderbilt University 62% undergrads
Washington University St Louis 61% undergrads
Georgetown University 60% undergrads
Rice University 59% undergrads
University of Penn 59% undergrads
University of Rochester 58% undergrads
Carnegie Mellon University 56% undergrads
New York University 56% undergrads
University of Southern California 55% undergrads
Duke University 54% undergrads
Yale University 52% undergrads
Northwestern University 51% undergrads
University of Chicago 45% undergrads
California Institute of Technology 41% undergrads
Harvard University 40% undergrads
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 40% undergrads
Stanford University 38% undergrads
Columbia University 23% undergrads</p>

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<p>Alexandre,
You are correct about the % of grad students on the campuses of America’s public colleges as their comparatively larger enrollments keep down the percentage measurements. In absolute numbers of grad students, you get a much more mixed result. </p>

<p>In response to your work above, is the data source you are drawing from have different grad students totals than what I presented in the OP? I am trying to confirm or not the accuracy collegeboard’s numbers for many of these schools. Would you mind posting the grad students numbers that you got from your source and if you believe that these include the professional grad students as well? Thanks.</p>

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<p>Yes, I used the date you provided in the original post. However, I found that some universities had unusually low numbers of graduate students. I could have sworn that Chicago, Harvard and Penn had significantly larger graduate student populations than reported above.</p>

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<p>The University of Michigan numbers above listed as “graduate” include both graduate AND professional enrollment. If you are looking for total enrollment, it’s all there, and everyone is counted.</p>

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<p>The Wisconsin undergrad number includes all Special Students who are usually part-time and not enrolled in a degree program. They may be taking undergrad or grad classes. The correct UG number is 28,462. The total grad and professional number is actually 11,411.</p>

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<p>I use IPEDS COOL, which are numbers reported to the department of education by the colleges themselves. They include part time students, so the numbers are usually higher than most other sites. The advantage is standardized reporting that permits comparisons across colleges. </p>

<p><a href=“College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics;

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<p>Well, I was just asking my colleagues if the College Board request for information was difficult, trying to get at whether it might it be unclear to some colleges if professional students should be included. They said no, and one added “not like IPEDS used to be.” Heh.</p>

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<p>I don’t think these numbers include professional school students.
The Newsweek/Kaplan annual issue lists the number of undergraduates as well as the total number of graduate and professional school students.
I think the College Board just lists the number of graduate and undergraduate students.</p>

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<p>The 2007 Newsweek/Kaplan college issue lists the following total students at some mentioned schools-</p>

<p>Harvard 19,354
Chicago 14,093
Stanford 18,981
Penn 18,510</p>

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<p>Some more from Newsweek/Kaplan-</p>

<p>Duke 14,011
Yale 11,424
Emory 12,045</p>

<p>Harvard, Chicago, Stanford and Penn have some of the largest private university professional school populations.</p>