Students
There are 10,091 students enrolled at the university (8877 undergraduates, 259 non-degree and 955 graduates), an increase of more than 100% over the past 20 years. A majority of the students live off-campus within the town limits, with a similar number of students who commute. About 88% of the students are Caucasian and 12% are of other heritage. The ratio of women to men is 60:40.
Academically, students are slightly above average, with median SAT scores of 1044. Most incoming freshmen are within the upper 29% of their graduating high school class.
The annual average tuition for a student at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 2011 was about $7,498 for a student living in PA. Approximately 79% of the students receive at least some form of financial aid.
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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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