First‑Time Undergraduate Students by Race/Ethnicity

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First-Time Undergraduate Students by Race/Ethnicity*: Fall 2016

  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 401 5.30 22 16 12 7 401 334 0 0
American Indian
or Alaska Native		 24 0.32 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
Asian 89 1.18 0 0 89 0 0 0 0 0
Black or African American 603 7.98 603 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Native Hawaiian
or Other Pacific Islander		 7 0.09 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0
White 6,089 80.55 0 0 0 0 0 6,089 0 0
Two or more races 262 3.47 82 94 87 30 0 240 0 0
Race/Ethnicity unknown 25 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Non-Resident Alien 59 0.78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59
Total 7,559 100.00 707 134 188 44 401 6,663 25 59
Percent of Enrollment
by Collection Category		     9.35 1.77 2.49 0.58 5.30 88.15 0.33 0.78
Total Percent of Enrollment
by all Collection Categories**		                   108.76

* 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%.