Understanding Our First-Year Students

Who are our first-year students?

Average age

  • First-term first year students -- 19
  • First-year transfer students -- 25
  • Sophomore transfer students -- 25
  • Junior transfer students -- 28
  • Senior transfer students -- 33

Meet our first-term, first-year students

  • 60% female
  • 39% male

What's their ethnicity?

  • White -- 63%
  • Hispanic --14%
  • Multiple -- 11%
  • Other -- 9%
  • Black -- 3%

Where are they from?

  • Oregon -- 55%
  • California -- 27%
  • Washington -- 5%
  • Hawaii -- 3%
  • Alaska -- 2%

How did they score?

  • Average High School GPA -- 3.33
  • Average Composite SAT/ACT -- 1030
  • Tested into Mth 100 or higher -- 92%

What's their status?

  • Full-time -- 79%
  • Pell Grant Recipient -- 38%
  • First generation -- 16%

What's their major?

  • Undecided -- 24%
  • Social Science -- 20%
  • Center for the Arts -- 16%
  • Business, Communication & the Environment -- 14%
  • STEM -- 12%
  • Education, Health & Leadership -- 10%
  • Humanities -- 3%