First‑Time Undergraduate Students by Race/Ethnicity

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First-Time Undergraduate Students by Race/Ethnicity*: Fall 2015

  Students by IPEDS
Reporting Category		 Students by Collection Category
Race and Ethnicity Total (Unique Count) % African American or Black American Indian or Alaska Native Asian Hawaiian Native or Other Pacific Islander Hispanic of any race White Race/
Ethnicity unknown		 Non-
Resident Alien
Hispanic or Latino 358 4.96 31 15 8 6 358 289 0 0
American Indian
or Alaska Native		 29 0.40 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0
Asian 91 1.26 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0
Black or African American 712 9.87 712 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Native Hawaiian
or Other Pacific Islander		 8 0.11 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0
White 5,700 79.05 0 0 0 0 0 5,700 0 0
Two or more races 192 2.66 57 78 69 17 0 170 0 0
Race/Ethnicity unknown 27 0.37 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0
Non-Resident Alien
(of any race or ethnicity)		 94 1.30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94
Total 7,211 100.00 800 122 168 31 358 6,159 27 94
Percent of Enrollment
by Collection Category		     11.09 1.69 2.33 0.43 4.96 85.41 0.37 1.30
Total Percent of Enrollment
by all Collection Categories**		                   107.60

* Effective fall 2010, federal law required universities to collect race/ethnicity data on new students in greater detail, see Glossary for more information.
New students may declare more than one race category in addition to the ethnicity category. Information under the "Students by IPEDS Reporting Category"
heading in the table above provides traditional race/ethnicity information where students are counted once per category. Information under the "Students
by Collection Category" heading provides a different look at race/ethnicity information. Hispanic students are reported as Hispanic as well as any race
categories they have self-reported. All new students declaring more than one race category are reported in each category selected. Therefore, adding the
figures from the separate race/ethnicity categories under this heading may yield a figure greater than the number shown in the "Total" column, which is a
unique student count. This second method provides a more precise reflection of the racial and ethnic diversity of the UA student body.
 
**This is the sum of all "collection category" percentages which will likely be greater than 100%.