Students
In Fall 2012, there were 5,457 undergraduate students, 1,686 graduate students, and 962 law students enrolled in the university for a total of 8,105. Thirty-one percent of the entire student body are racial minorities with Hispanics being the largest minority group. Five percent of the student body are international. Fifty-eight percent of the student body are females, in the law school this number drops to 49 percent and in the graduate programs it rises to 64 percent. Between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, USD awarded 2,164 degrees. There were 845 faculty employed by the university in Fall 2011, 435 men and 410 women with 155 of these being minorities.
The University of San Diego's average GPA of admitted freshmen for the Class of 2014 was 3.89. The average SAT I score was 1220 and the average ACT score was 28. USD received 13,867 applications for admission for the Class of 2014, 6,590 were admitted (48 percent), and 1,143 enrolled (17 percent).
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“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they’re killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We’d not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
—Spike Lee (b. 1956)
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
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