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The Students

• In fall 2002, 30,983 students were enrolled. Of the total, 27,954 were regular on-campus degree-seeking students. The other 3,029 included students on study abroad, faculty/staff on tuition waivers, non-degree seeking students, students enrolled in the CU-Boulder evening program or correspondence courses and students from other CU campuses taking courses at CU-Boulder.
  
  
• Of the regular on-campus degree-seeking students, 47 percent (13,215) are women, 53 percent (14,739) are men; 84 percent (23,454) are undergraduates, 16 percent (4,500) are graduate students; 66 percent (18,525) are Colorado residents, 34 percent (9,429) are nonresidents; and 13 percent (3,609) are minorities.
  
  
• For the fall 2002 semester, 19,048 prospective freshmen applied for admission, and 5,391 enrolled. Eighty-one percent of Colorado resident applicants were offered admission.
  
  
• Test scores for the middle 50 percent of all enrolled freshmen ranged from 22 to 27 on the ACT; from 520 to 620 on the SAT verbal section, and from 540 to 640 on the SAT math section.
  
  
• CU-Boulder granted 5,790 degrees during the 2001-02 academic year.
  
  
• International student enrollment in fall 2002 was 1,165, almost 5 percent higher than in 2001. CU-Boulder's international students represent more than 100 countries.
  
  
• About 6,000 students, primarily freshmen, live in 21 campus residence halls.
  
  
• Financial aid awarded in the 2001-02 academic year totaled $135 million, including work-study employment. About 48 percent of the student body, or 14,104 students, received some form of aid-scholarships, grants, loans or work-study employment. The average aid package was $9,570.
  
  
• Research and teaching assistantships and student hourly job earnings totaled more than $40 million, bringing the overall total to more than $175 million.
  
  
• Since 1905, 19 CU-Boulder graduates have been named Rhodes Scholars. Former Buffs defensive lineman Jim Hansen (aerospace engineering, 1992) is the most recent CU graduate to receive a doctorate from Oxford.
  
  
• Five CU-Boulder students have received the prestigious British Marshall Scholarship, with former student Kathy King receiving the most recent award in fall 2001.
  
  

Professor Allan Collins of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics won the 2003 Langley Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, which honors ground-breaking advances in basic nicotine research.

• CU-Boulder ranked No. 1 in the state among public and private schools in attracting Boettcher Scholars, recognized as some of the most outstanding Colorado students. In fall 2002 CU attracted 15 of Technology on Campus The Students , bringing the total enrolled to 66, more than 40 percent of the total statewide.
  
  
• CU-Boulder is the only Colorado institution where students won at least one Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Udall and Goldwater scholarship from 1990 to 2000. Since 1999, CU-Boulder students have won two Marshall, two Truman, seven Goldwater and three Udall scholarships.
  
  
• The University of Colorado Student Union (UCSU), one of the largest and most active student governments in the nation, manages a budget of $27.5 million annually. Forty-eight percent of the UCSU budget is funded by student fees; the rest comes from self-generated revenue.
  
  
• Through joint boards, UCSU operates the University Memorial Center (UMC), Wardenburg Health Center, the Environmental Center, the Cultural Events Board, KVCU Radio 1190, the Women's Resource Center, Off-campus Student Services, Legal Services, the Recycling Center, the Recreation Center, Nightride/Nightwalk, the Student Organization Finance Office and the Volunteer Clearing House.