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Table 17: Honors College Students Profile, Fall 2007 to Fall 2012

  2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
N= 319 372 428 450 480 467
  % % % % % %
Gender            
Male 31.7 36.3 37.6 38.4 40.4 38.3
Female 68.3 63.7 62.4 61.6 59.6 61.7
             
Race/Ethnicity Imputed *            
Asian 21.6 21.8 21.3 21.6 21.8 22.8
Black 8.8 8.9 10.3 9.8 8.6 8.5
Hispanic 13.5 14.8 15.7 15.6 14.8 21.6
White 55.8 54.0 52.6 52.9 54.6 49.7
Other            
             
Student Age            
Less than 22 96.6 97.6 97.2 85.9 89.2 87.2
25 and over 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.2 0.0
Mean Age  (number) 19.5 19.6 19.6 19.9 19.9 19.9
             
Residence            
New York City Total 78.1 77.0 76.9 76.2 74.6 73.3
Brooklyn 22.8 21.9 19.5 20.0 20.2 19.7
Bronx 3.7 5.2 5.9 6.1 7.3 6.5
Manhattan 13.0 13.1 12.7 9.8 8.8 8.5
Queens 29.9 29.5 31.1 32.1 29.8 29.5
Staten Island 8.6 7.3 7.7 8.2 8.5 9.0
             
New York State 17.0 17.0 18.6 18.9 21.9 23.0
Other US State/Territory 4.9 6.0 4.5 5.0 3.5 3.7
             
Total Number of Countries 20 21 25 28 27 28
Total Number of Languages 28 28 31 31 28 32
             
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth            
Student Born in US 53.7 46.0 42.0 39.1 46.0 52.8
Student Born Outside US 29.9 27.2 25.2 21.5 20.0 19.5
Country Unknown 39.7 43.1 38.6 47.5 50.0 49.0
Eastern Europe 23.3 13.9 16.9 12.1 12.5 11.5
Asia 19.2 19.4 21.7 17.2 15.6 16.7
Africa 2.7 4.2 2.4 2.0 1.0 2.1
Middle East 4.1 4.2 2.4 4.0 3.1 3.1
Caribbean 0.0 2.8 4.8 6.1 5.2 5.2
Western Europe 1.4 0.0 1.2 1.0 1.0 2.1
South America 5.5 6.9 6.0 4.0 5.2 4.2
Central Asia 2.7 2.8 3.6 4.0 4.2 4.2
North America 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.0 2.1
Central America 0.0 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.0 0.0
Student Birthplace Unknown 16.4 26.8 32.8 39.4 34.0 27.7
             
At least 1 Parent Born in US 38.3 39.7 41.0 41.7 42.7 43.2
At least 1 Parent Born Outside US 48.9 45.7 48.8 52.9 51.0 49.1
At least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 12.8 14.6 10.2 5.4 6.3 7.7
             
Both Parents Born in US 26.9 29.0 27.7 28.9 29.4 30.4
Both Parents Born Outside US 38.6 49.4 47.6 49.5 47.5 46.6
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 34.5 21.6 24.7 21.6 23.1 23.0
             
Language            
Native Language English 46.1 47.6 48.1 51.8 65.0 66.6
Native Language other than English 26.0 22.3 24.1 20.0 25.0 24.0
Native Language unknown 27.9 30.1 27.8 28.2 10.0 9.4
             
Speak English at home 29.5 22.8 16.8 13.3 22.1 29.3
Speak language other than English at home 35.7 30.1 29.2 24.9 40.0 40.3
Language unknown 34.8 47.0 54.0 61.8 37.9 30.3
             
Most comfortable with English 17.2 16.1 15.2 13.3 23.3 22.6
Most comfortable with language other than English 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.4
Equally comfortable with both languages 18.2 13.4 13.6 10.9 15.4 22.6
Most comfortable language unknown 64.3 69.9 70.8 75.3 60.6 60.3
* reported race/ethnicity shown for 2012.Total percentage may exceed 100% since multiracial responses indicated.
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files
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