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About UCC - Enrollment

Eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-two students (11,672) enrolled in the Fall semester of 2007, of whom forty-six percent (5,397) were full-time and fifty-four percent (6,275) were part-time students.
From 2001 - 2007, the number of credit hours generated by enrollments increased.

Enrollment and Credit Hours for Full-time and Part-time Students,
Fall 1999 -2007

	Enrollment			Credit Hours
Year	FT	PT	Total	FT	PT	Total
1999	4462	4109	8571	58888	24752	83640
2000	4442	4213	8655	57521	24820	82341
2001	4654	4296	8950	60852	25918	86770
2002	5168	4287	9455	67665	25892	93557
2003	5430	4969	10399	70952	30033	100985
2004	5346	5712	11058	69515	34168	103683
2005	5327	5649	10976	69492	33741	103233
2006	5341	5825	11166	69809	35142	104951
2007	5397	6275	11672	70705	38087	108792

Sixty-four percent (7,444) of the students enrolled in Fall 2007 were females and thirty-six percent (4,228) were males. Thirty-five percent (1,497) of males and twenty-four percent (1,791) of the female population were 18 to 20 years old.

Enrollment by Gender by Age: Fall 2003-2007

	2003		2004		2005		2006		2007
	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F
Under 18	35	55	36	54	72	64	73	61	71	87
18-20	1184	1531	1247	1615	1320	1727	1421	1750	1585	1864
21-24	865	1346	904	1452	894	1421	987	1509	1066	1595
25-34	672	1828	701	1870	710	1844	686	1829	662	1862
35-44	333	1093	322	1108	308	1034	292	1006	289	969
45-54	163	424	161	505	134	496	140	445	123	424
55-64	38	82	37	72	33	73	35	81	32	105
65 +	125	288	109	296	88	219	88	212	83	192
Unknown	137	200	253	316	236	303	260	291	317	346
Total	3552	6847	3770	7288	3795	7181	3982	7184	4228	7444

Of the 11,672 students enrolled at UCC during Fall 2007, 95% (11,046) were from New Jersey, and approximately 83% (9,736) resided in Union County.

Headcount Enrollment by New Jersey County Fall 2007

The ethnic profile of the Fall 2008 class was the following: thirty-two percent (3,817) White, non-Hispanic; twenty-seven percent Black, non- Hispanic (3231); thirty-one percent (3,643) Hispanic; six percent (717) Asian/Pacific Islander; three percent (354) non-resident alien and one percent (104) were Native American.

Enrollment by Ethnicity and Status, Fall 2004 - 2008

	2004		2005		2006		2007		2008
	FT	PT	FT	PT	FT	PT	FT	PT	FT	PT
Non-resident Alien	226	44	239	59	196	44	252	49	299	55
Black, non- Hispanic	1354	1754	1299	1780	1217	1797	1303	1822	1454	1777
American Indian	14	28	18	31	40	53	43	63	44	60
Asian/Pacific Isl.	305	465	256	496	297	494	251	560	266	451
Hispanic	1851	1162	1895	1204	1916	1363	1906	1592	1904	1739
White, non- Hispanic	1596	2259	1690	2079	1675	2074	1642	2189	1723	2094
Total	5346	5712	5327	5649	5341	5825	5397	6275	5690	6176

During the Fall 2008 semester twenty-eight percent (3,314) of the students enrolled were liberal arts majors. Twenty-five percent (2,996) of the students elected their major from health sciences and another fourteen percent (1,617) chose their major from accounting and business related fields.
In 2008, there was an increase in matriculated full-time students by approximately 4.5% or 437 students.

Enrollment by Major Categories and Status Fall, 2004-2008

	2004		2005		2006		2007		2008
	FT	PT	FT	PT	FT	PT	FT	PT	FT	PT
Business	894	640	902	674	815	612	846	630	1011	606
Comm.	196	110	196	92	202	103	225	90	239	112
Engineering & Tech	267	148	255	145	341	187	389	226	460	239
Health Sciences	936	1820	832	1897	878	1971	795	2244	798	2198
Human Services	328	264	374	241	392	312	463	345	519	356
Liberal Arts	2114	924	2081	928	2045	1000	2168	1005	2171	1143
Science	201	117	232	146	224	159	213	137	227	134
Matriculated	4936	4023	4875	4123	4897	4344	5099	4677	5425	4788
Non matriculated	410	1689	452	1526	444	1481	298	1598	265	1388
Grand Total	5346	5712	5327	5649	5341	5825	5397	6275	5690	6176

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