First‑Time Undergraduate Students by Race/Ethnicity

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First-Time Undergraduate Students by Race/Ethnicity*: Fall 2024

  Students by IPEDS
Reporting Category		 Students by Collection Category
Race and Ethnicity Total (Unique Count) % Hispanic of any race American Indian or Alaska Native Asian African American or Black Hawaiian Native or Other Pacific Islander White Race/
Ethnicity unknown		 US Nonresident
Hispanic or Latino 670 8.34 670 48 19 68 11 519 0 0
American Indian
or Alaska Native		 43 0.54 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0
Asian 121 1.51 0 0 121 0 0 0 0 0
Black or African American 1,022 12.72 0 0 0 1,022 0 0 0 0
Native Hawaiian
or Other Pacific Islander		 5 0.06 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0
White 5,619 69.96 0 0 0 0 0 5,619 0 0
Two or more races 332 4.13 0 78 143 139 28 295 0 0
Race/Ethnicity unknown 146 1.82 0 0 0 0 0 0 146 0
US Nonresident 74 0.92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74
Total 8,032 100.00 670 169 283 1,229 44 6,433 146 74
Percent of Enrollment
by Collection Category		     8.34 2.10 3.52 15.30 0.55 80.09 1.82 0.92
Total Percent of Enrollment
by all Collection Categories**		                   112.65

* 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%.