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Quick Facts about UK
2007-2008
- In Fall 2007, 26,648 students were enrolled at UK.
- Undergraduate students at UK made up 71% of the total student body.
- In Fall 2007, minority and international students at UK comprised 19% of the overall headcount.
- Women constituted the majority of the student population at the undergraduate (51.2%) and graduate levels (58.7%). Women also comprised nearly half (47.9%) of those enrolled in first-professional programs.
- Eighty-six percent of students attended the University on a full-time basis.
- One in four (24%) UK students came from out of state, mostly from states bordering Kentucky.
- Arts & Sciences was the largest college, enrolling 22% of students in Fall 2007.
- In Fall 2007, 3,865 students began their college careers at UK, with one-third of the class presenting an average high school GPA of 3.8 or higher.
- The average ACT Composite score for the 2007-2008 freshman class was 24.3.
- The 2007 first-year class included 28 National Merit Scholars and 348 students who participated in the Kentucky Governor's Scholars and Governor's School for the Arts programs.
- The freshman-to-sophomore year retention rate for the 2006 cohort was 76.4 percent.
- The graduation rate for the 2001 cohort was 61.1 percent.
- In 2007, 5,637 students earned degrees from UK.
- Three of five degrees (64%) awarded in 2007 were at the bachelor's level.
- In 2007-08, resident tuition and fees amounted to $7,096 for undergraduates in the lower division and $7,670 for graduate students.
- Tuition for non-resident students was a little more than double that of in-state students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
- The 2007-08 budget targeted $285.3 million for Instruction, $274.0 million for Research, and $27.7 million for Student Services.
- UK researchers brought in $280.3 million in outside funding for grants and contracts in FY 2007.
- UK is ranked 34th among public research universities in research and development expenditures.
- In 2006-07, the UK library held over 3.5 million volumes, nearly 32,000 periodical titles, and over 6.4 million microforms.
- During Fall 2006, 11,219 full-time employees worked at the University, including 2,028 faculty members.
Additional facts about UK can be found in the Common Data Set, Fact Booklet, and the data in the Data Dictionary provided by the Office of Vice President for Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness.
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