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A while back, Yana wrote about a presentation Baruch’s Asst. Director of Institutional research, Jimmy Jung, made at the Institute. To follow up on that post, here’s some telling data from Jimmy’s handout as a little something towards a context for the work we do at the Schwartz Institute:

Enrollment: 12,844

75.9% full time and 24.1% part time
45.2% male and 54.8% female

Ethnicity: American Indian, 0.1%; Asian, 27.9%; Black, 12.9%; Hispanic, 16.9%; White, 31.5%; and International, 10.7%

Geographic Distribution: Bronx, 8.0%; Brooklyn, 31.4%; Manhattan, 12.8%; Queens, 34.4%; Staten Island, 3.9%; Other NY, 7.7%; and New Jersey, 1.4%

School: Zicklin School of Business, 80.8%; School of Public Affairs, 2.8%; and Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, 16.4%

Top Ten Majors:

1. Accountancy
2. Finance and investments
3. Marketing
4. Management
5. Computer methodology
6. Business communications
7. Entrepreneurship
8. Real estate
9. Psychology
10. Economics

What makes Baruch’s undergraduates special?

Baruch is the most ethnically diverse higher education institution in the US.

Baruch is the #1 producer of accounting majors and CPA test takers in the US.

Approximately 41.8% of undergraduate students at Baruch are born outside of the US.

Approximately 52.6% of undergraduate students at Baruch speak a language other than English at home.

Approximately 35 percent of undergraduate students at Baruch are first in their family to attend college.

Of the freshmen students who start out at Baruch about 70 percent attended NYC public high schools.

Of the undergraduate students enrolled in Baruch about 60 percent transferred in from another college, the majority are from the CUNY community college system.

For more interesting data on Baruch’s student body, visit the website of Baruch’s Office of Institutional Research and Program Assessment. Thanks again, Jimmy.