Princeton University
Princeton Weekly Bulletin September 10, 2006, Vol. 96, No. 1 prev next current
- Page One
- • José Rafael Moneo Arquitecto selected to design neuroscience / psychology buildings
- • Emergency planning is key as more students travel abroad
- • Class of 2010 arrives
- Inside
- • Milberg gives leading Irish theater collection honoring Muldoon
- • Online book club features ‘tiger tomes’
- • Exhibition showcases Goheen’s 70 years of service to Princeton
- Campus building
- • Summer construction brings two major projects near completion
- • Chemistry building, pedestrian bridge on the horizon
- Almanac
- • Calendar of events
- • Nassau notes
- • By the numbers
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Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Eric Quiñones
Contributing writer: Cass Cliatt
Photographers: Denise Applewhite, John Jameson
Design: Maggie Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett
By the numbers
The Princeton class of 2010
Number of students=1,230
Percent on financial aid=55
Number of applications=17,564 (record)
Percent admitted=10.2
Percent admitted through early decision=49
Percent men=53
Percent women=47
Number of states represented=47 plus Washington, D.C.
Number of countries represented=42
Percent students of color=37
Percent international students=10.3
Percent sons/daughters of alumni=13.9
Total undergraduate enrollment=4,792
Fall 2006 entering graduate students
Number pursuing doctoral degrees=422
Number seeking master’s degrees=158
Number of visiting and exchange students=17
Number of applications=8,641
Percent admitted=13
Percent men=61
Percent women=39
Percent international students=39
Percent students of color=14
Percent in humanities and social sciences=50
Percent in sciences and engineering=45
Percent in architecture=5
Total graduate enrollment=2,328
Source: Office of Admission and Office of the Dean of the Graduate School; figures are accurate for the pre-registration period — official opening enrollment numbers will be issued by the Office of the Registrar in early October.
caption (Denise Applewhite)