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1998-99 Quick Facts
Final Enrollment


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Admissions Degrees Fall FTE Personnel
Alumni Enrollment by Campus Gender Residency
Athletics Enrollment by College Headcount Enrollment Top Ten Majors
Average Age Ethnicity  HousingTuition


Founded 1961
Type Public, Four-Year, Coeducational, Doctoral Degree Granting University
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
President Anthony James Catanese, Ph.D.
Calendar Semester


Degrees Conferred 1997-1998   Degree Programs
  Female Male Total   Bachelor's 56
Associate's 53 44 97   Master's 49
Bachelor's 1,823 1,089 2,912   Specialist 3
Master's 464 320 784   Doctoral 15
Specialist 10 2 12      
Doctoral 23 26 49      
Total 2,373 1,481 3,854      
 
 
Tuition & Fees (per Credit Hour)
    Undergrad Graduate      
Florida Resident $70.64 $139.99      
Non-Resident $292.50 $483.55      



Headcount Enrollment, Fall 1998
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Freshman 1,925 338 2,26312%  
Sophomore 955 313 1,268 6%  
Junior 2,384 2,107 4,491 23%  
Senior 2,496 2,974 5,470 28%  
2nd BA 190 695 885 5%  
Total Undergrad 7,950 6,42714,37773%  
Masters 789 1,330 2,119 11%  
Doctoral 141 189 330 2%  
Total Graduate 930 1,519 2,449 12%  
Unclassified 103 2,737 2,840 14% 
Total 8,983 10,68319,666100%  
 
 
Ethnicity
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Asian 331 371 7024%  
Black 1,1001,350 2,45012%  
Hispanic 9181,169 2,08711%  
Native American 55 45 1001%  
White 5,7417,531 13,27267%  
International 838 217 1,055 5%  
 
 
Gender
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Female 5,1846,701 11,88560% 
Male 3,799 3,982 7,78140% 



Residency

Florida Counties

Florida 18,08892%   Broward 8,468
Non-Florida (U.S.) 1,1326%   Palm Beach 6,972
Non-U.S. 4462%   All Others 2,648
           
 
 
Headcount Enrollment by Campus
  All Enrolled Primary %    
Boca Raton 14,242 13,496 69%    
Davie 4,687 3,663 19%    
Tower 603 476 2%    
Jupiter 1,636 1,160 6%    
Treasure Coast 609 552 3%    
Off-Campus 321 223 1%    


Headcount Enrollment by College
 Undergrad GraduateUnclassified Total%
Arch, Urban & Public Affairs 902 188 95 1,185 6%
Arts & Letters 2,781 259 747 3,787 19%
Business 4,309 545 332 5,186 26%
Education 2,236 797 900 3,933 20%
Engineering 1,163 308 170 1,641 8%
Liberal Arts 627 14 158 799 4%
Nursing 527 88 130 745 4%
Science 1,832 250 308 2,390 12%
Total14,377 2,4492,840 19,666 100%


Top Ten Majors by Enrollment
Undergraduate     Graduate  
Elementary Education 1,694   Business Administration 326
Biological Sciences 968   Educational Leadership 262
Accounting 860   Public Administration 142
Management 791   Exceptional Student Education 130
Psychology 693   Elementary Education 116
Nursing 527   Counselor Education 108
Communication 505   Computer Science 91
Computer Information Systems 482   Foundations of Education 91
Computer Science 449   Nursing 88
Criminal Justice 421   Executive MBA 69


Fall 1998 FTE       Average Age  
Undergraduate 10,434.5     Undergraduate 26
Graduate 1,474.0     Graduate 34
Total 11,908.5 Unclassified 36
 
 
Student Housing
  Female Male Total

%

 
On-Campus 832 544 1,376 7%  
Off-Campus 11,053 7,237 18,290 93%  
 
 
Admissions
  Applied Admitted Registered    
First-Time-In-College 4,109 3,076 1,424    
Community College Transfers 2,155 2,013 1,650    
Other Undergraduate Transfers 2,245 1,873 1,175    
Graduate 1,983 1,037 688    
Total 10,492 7,999 4,937    
 
 
First-Time-In-College Test Scores (Average)
ACT 21        
SAT 1054        
High School GPA 3.3        
 
 
Alumni
United States 59,201 Florida 45,553
International/Unknown 4,505 Broward 15,836
Total 63,706 Palm Beach 16,308


Athletics  
Men's Sports Women's Sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross Country
Cross Country Golf
Football (2001)Soccer
Golf Softball
Soccer Swimming
Swimming Tennis
Tennis Volleyball


Personnel
  Full-time Part-time Total  
Faculty 742 8 750  
Adjuncts 32 482 514  
A&P 354 3 357  
Staff 754 668 1,422  
Total 1,882 1,1613,043  
 
 
Faculty
  Female Male Total  
Professor 41 205 246  
Associate Prof 61 115 176  
Assistant Prof 98 85 183  
Instructor 27 20 47  
Lecturer 5 1 6  
Other 57 35 92  
Total 289 461 750