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Table 17: Honors College Students Profile, Fall 2006 to Fall 2011

  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
N= 290 319 372 428 450 480
  % % % % % %
Gender            
Male 32.1 31.7 36.3 37.6 38.4 40.4
Female 67.9 68.3 63.7 62.4 61.6 59.6
             
Race/Ethnicity Imputed*            
Asian 22.8 21.6 21.8 21.3 21.6 24.0
Black 7.6 8.8 8.9 10.3 9.8 10.7
Hispanic 9.3 13.5 14.8 15.7 15.6 22.6
White 60.0 55.8 54.0 52.6 52.9 51.6
Other           7.3
             
Student Age            
             
Less than 22 97.6 96.6 97.6 97.2 85.9 89.2
25 and over 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.2
Mean Age  (number) 19.6 19.5 19.6 19.6 19.9 19.9
             
Residence            
New York City Total 76.0 78.1 77.0 76.9 76.2 74.6
Brooklyn 23.0 22.8 21.9 19.5 20.0 20.2
Bronx 4.1 3.7 5.2 5.9 6.1 7.3
Manhattan 15.2 13.0 13.1 12.7 9.8 8.8
Queens 24.0 29.9 29.5 31.1 32.1 29.8
Staten Island 9.8 8.6 7.3 7.7 8.2 8.5
             
New York State 18.6 17.0 17.0 18.6 18.9 21.9
Other US State/Territory 5.4 4.9 6.0 4.5 5.0 3.5
             
Total Number of Countries 19 20 21 25 28 27
Total Number of Languages 27 28 28 31 31 28
             
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth            
Student Born in US 54.7 53.7 46.0 42.0 39.1 46.0
Student Born Outside US 32.8 29.9 27.2 25.2 21.5 20.0
Country Unknown 44.4 39.7 43.1 38.6 47.5 50.0
Eastern Europe 23.6 23.3 13.9 16.9 12.1 12.5
Asia 16.7 19.2 19.4 21.7 17.2 15.6
Africa 4.2 2.7 4.2 2.4 2.0 1.0
Middle East 2.8 4.1 4.2 2.4 4.0 3.1
Carribian 2.8 0.0 2.8 4.8 6.1 5.2
Western Europe 1.4 1.4 0.0 1.2 1.0 1.0
South America 1.4 5.5 6.9 6.0 4.0 5.2
Central Asia 1.4 2.7 2.8 3.6 4.0 4.2
North America 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.0
Central America 0.0 0.0 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.0
Student Birthplace Unknown 12.5 16.4 26.8 32.8 39.4 34.0
             
At least 1 Parent Born in US 37.8 38.3 39.7 41.0 41.7 42.7
At least 1 Parent Born Outside US 51.7 48.9 45.7 48.8 52.9 51.0
At least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 10.5 12.8 14.6 10.2 5.4 93.7
             
Both Parents Born in US 25.0 26.9 29.0 27.7 28.9 29.4
Both Parents Born Outside US 39.0 38.6 49.4 47.6 49.5 47.5
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 36.0 34.5 21.6 24.7 21.6 23.1
             
Language            
Native Language English 42.8 46.1 47.6 48.1 51.8 65.0
Native Language other than English 27.9 26.0 22.3 24.1 20.0 25.0
Native Language unknown 29.3 27.9 30.1 27.8 28.2 10.0
             
Speak English at home 28.3 29.5 22.8 16.8 13.3 22.1
Speak language other than English at home 35.9 35.7 30.1 29.2 24.9 40.0
Language unknown 35.9 34.8 47.0 54.0 61.8 37.9
             
Most comfortable with English 17.9 17.2 16.1 15.2 13.3 23.3
Most comfortable with language other than English 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.6
Equally comfortable with both languages 17.6 18.2 13.4 13.6 10.9 15.4
Most comfortable language unknown 64.5 64.3 69.9 70.8 75.3 60.6

           
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files              
* Reported race/ethnicity shown for 2011.Total percentage may exceed 100% since multiracial responses indicated. 
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