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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“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)