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Undergrad Enrollment Reaches 4,547

A total of 4,547 full and part-time undergraduates have enrolled at Lehigh for the fall semester, according 10th day enrollment statistics released by the registrar's office. This number does not include students who are not seeking a degree, such as LVAIC or ROTC students from other colleges taking courses at Lehigh. On a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis the total undergraduate count is 4,524 students. There are 1,078 incoming freshmen at Lehigh and a total of 1,832 full and part-time graduate students. Forty percent of the undergraduates and 42 percent of the graduate students are women. The College of Arts and Sciences enrolls 1,768 FTE undergrads (39.2 percent); the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, 1,459 (32.4 percent); Business and Economics, 1,210 (26.8 percent); and arts-engineering five-year program, 71 (1.6 percent). Lehigh's undergraduate population includes 228 Asian-American students (5 percent); 146 African-American students (3.2 percent); 143 Latino-Americans students (3.2 percent) and six American Indian/Alaskan native students (0.13 percent). Among the incoming freshman class the statistics are similar: 4.8 percent Asian-Americans, 4.5 percent Hispanic or Latino-Americans, 3.3 percent African-Americans, and 0.19 percent American Indian/Alaskan native students. There are students from all of the 50 states except Wyoming. The top five states sending the most undergraduates are Pennsylvania (1392 or 30.8 percent), New Jersey (1047 or 23.1 percent), New York (709 or 15.7 percent), Connecticut (267 or 5.9 percent) and Massachusetts (198 or 4.4 percent). There are 164 undergrads from 45 other countries attending Lehigh, with the largest continents coming from Korea (22), Turkey (20) and Hong Kong (15). Among graduate students, 19.5 percent have international citizenship, with the largest contingents from China (92), India and Turkey (both 37), Korea (30), and Thailand (27).