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����ֱ�� University of California begins the 2023-2024 academic year welcoming 368 diverse and academically accomplished first-year and transfer undergraduate students, a 19 percent increase from fall 2022. 

In addition, the University gained 207 graduate students for the fall 2023 semester, a 40 percent increase from fall 2022, with strong demand for master’s degree programs in education, business administration, business analytics, fine arts, counseling psychology, and art therapy. ����ֱ�� also has added several new graduate programs, including a doctoral program in occupational therapy and a master’s program in sport and performance psychology.

����ֱ�� offers more than 60 undergraduate majors, minors and concentrations. For first-year undergraduates, the average high school GPA is 3.7. 

����ֱ��’s new first-year and transfer students come from throughout California, as well as more than a dozen states and nine countries. States represented include Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Nevada, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Arizona, New York, and Oregon.  

The University gained 78 new first-year student-athletes. ����ֱ��, a member of the Pacific West Conference, currently sponsors 13 NCAA sports. Earlier this year, ����ֱ�� was ranked in the top 10 schools nationally to receive the NCAA Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence. ����ֱ�� was the only NCAA Division II school in Northern California on this year’s list. It was the fifth consecutive year that s has been honored with this award by the NCAA.

More than 170 of ����ֱ��’s new undergraduates are the first in their family to attend college. The ethnicity of this year’s entering first-year class is: 36 percent Latinx, 28 percent Asian, 21 percent White, 7 percent African American, and 5 percent Multiethnic. 

Last year, ����ֱ�� earned a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) designation from the U.S. Department of Education. Under the broader MSI designation, ����ֱ�� has qualified specifically as both a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI), with more than 25% of undergraduate students identifying as Latinx and more than 25% identifying as Asian American or Pacific Islander.

MSI designation underscores the university’s commitment to continuing to increase diversity at ����ֱ�� and to serving the needs of future students, particularly those from historically underserved populations.

“Having the official designation publicly confirms an identity — and an achievement — that is central to ����ֱ��’s mission and our values,” President Nicola Pitchford noted when announcing the designation.

Fall 2023 enrollment numbers will be finalized on Census Day, Sept. 15.