Enrollments 2008–2009

Undergraduate Enrollment		4,153
First-Year*		1,051
Undeclared Second-Year*		26
Special Undergraduate Students		15
Architecture and Planning		69
Engineering		1,851
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences		140
Management		174
Science		827

* MIT students do not enroll in an academic department until the start of their sophomore year, and may defer decision on a course of study until the end of that year.

Graduate Enrollment			6,146
	Master's	Doctoral	Special
Architecture and Planning	402	179	3
Engineering	1,070	1,636	101
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences	33	277	7
Management	879	114	12
Science	13	1,047	11
Whitaker College	23	337*	2

* This number includes 198 students working on Harvard degrees only.

Women have attended MIT since 1871. In fall 2008, 1,885 women were enrolled as undergraduates (45.4 percent) and 1,907 as graduate students (31 percent).

US minority groups were represented by 1,946 undergraduates (47 percent) and 1,055 graduate students (17 percent):

	Undergraduate	Graduate
African American	334	128
Asian American	1,054	701
Hispanic	516	201
Native American	42	25

In 2008–2009, MIT students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and 115 foreign countries.

For more information on enrollments, see http://web.mit.edu/registrar/.