| Native Language of First-time Freshmen | ||||||||
| Table 23 | ||||||||
| FALL 2005 | Fall 2006 | Fall 2007 | Fall 2008 | |||||
| Language | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| MISSING/UNKNOWN | 267 | 14.6 | 385 | 20.2 | 202 | 10.6 | 271 | 13.3 |
| ENGLISH | 814 | 44.5 | 747 | 39.1 | 968 | 50.7 | 1037 | 50.9 |
| CHINESE | 161 | 8.8 | 146 | 7.6 | 182 | 9.5 | 206 | 10.1 |
| SPANISH | 143 | 7.8 | 138 | 7.2 | 124 | 6.5 | 133 | 6.5 |
| RUSSIAN | 140 | 7.7 | 154 | 8.1 | 124 | 6.5 | 96 | 4.7 |
| KOREAN | 47 | 2.6 | 33 | 1.7 | 40 | 2.1 | 44 | 2.2 |
| POLISH | 31 | 1.7 | 18 | 0.9 | 24 | 1.3 | 27 | 1.3 |
| TAGALOG | 28 | 1.5 | 25 | 1.3 | 21 | 1.1 | 21 | 1.0 |
| BENGALI | 26 | 1.4 | 31 | 1.6 | 39 | 2.0 | 37 | 1.8 |
| TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES | 17 | 0.9 | 24 | 1.3 | 7 | 0.4 | ||
| URDU | 17 | 0.9 | 15 | 0.8 | 17 | 0.9 | 20 | 1.0 |
| CREOLE | 13 | 0.7 | 4 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.2 |
| UKRAINIAN | 10 | 0.6 | 8 | 0.4 | 16 | 0.8 | 14 | 0.7 |
| ARABIC | 9 | 0.5 | 12 | 0.6 | 11 | 0.6 | 12 | 0.6 |
| GUARANI | 8 | 0.4 | ||||||
| HINDI | 8 | 0.4 | 10 | 0.5 | 10 | 0.5 | 8 | 0.4 |
| PUNJABI | 8 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.3 | 14 | 0.7 | 9 | 0.4 |
| ALBANIAN | 7 | 0.4 | 12 | 0.6 | 11 | 0.6 | 9 | 0.4 |
| FRENCH | 6 | 0.3 | 6 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.3 | 4 | 0.2 |
| HEBREW | 6 | 0.3 | 6 | 0.3 | 7 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.1 |
| MALAYALAM | 5 | 0.3 | 6 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.2 |
| PILIPINO | 5 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | ||
| VIETNAMESE | 5 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.3 | 8 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.3 |
| ARMENIAN | 4 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 8 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.1 |
| FARSI | 4 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
| JAPANESE | 4 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.1 |
| DUTCH-FLEMISH | 3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |||||
| GUJARATI | 3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.1 |
| PORTUGUESE | 3 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.2 |
| SERBO-CROATIAN | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.2 |
| THAI | 3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 |
| TIBETAN | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 |
| TURKISH | 3 | 0.2 | 6 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.1 |
| GREEK | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.2 | 8 | 0.4 |
| MALAY | 2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||||
| NEPALI | 2 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.2 | ||
| SLOVAK | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
| YORUBA | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| AMHARIC | 1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| BALUCHI | 1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| BEMBA | 1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| BULGARIAN | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.0 |
| BURMESE | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.2 | ||
| FULA | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | ||||
| GERMAN | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | ||||
| HAKKA | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| HO | 1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| KAZAKH | 1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| NORWEGIAN | 1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| ROMANIAN | 1 | 0.1 | 6 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.1 |
| WOLOF | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| AZERBAIJANI | -- | -- | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| BYELORUSSIAN | -- | -- | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| CAMBODIAN | -- | -- | ||||||
| EDO | -- | -- | ||||||
| EWE | -- | -- | ||||||
| GEORGIAN | -- | -- | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.1 |
| HUNGARIAN | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 |
| IGBO | -- | -- | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | ||
| INDONESIAN | -- | -- | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 |
| ITALIAN | -- | -- | 4 | 0.2 | ||||
| KANNADA | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | ||||
| KHMER | -- | -- | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| KONKANI | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | ||||
| LATVIAN | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | ||||
| LITHUANIAN | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | ||
| MACEDONIAN | -- | -- | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| MADURESE | -- | -- | ||||||
| MARATHI | -- | -- | ||||||
| OTHER | -- | -- | 8 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.1 |
| PERSIAN | -- | -- | ||||||
| PUSHTO | -- | -- | 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 |
| SHONA | -- | -- | ||||||
| SINHALESE | -- | -- | ||||||
| TAMIL | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 |
| TELUGU | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | ||
| TULU | -- | -- | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| TWI-FANTE | -- | -- | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| UBZEH | -- | -- | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | ||
| Total | 1,829 | 100 | 1,864 | 100.0 | 1,910 | 100.0 | 2,038 | 100.0 |
| *Note: Combine Mandarin, Chinese and Cantonese as Chinese | ||||||||