{"id":10157,"date":"2018-10-04T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2019-03-13T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:04:50","slug":"meet-our-class-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2018\/10\/meet-our-class-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, the College of Science welcomed 728 new first-year students, an increase of 4.7 percent from last fall\u2019s enrollment. Twenty-six percent, or 193 first-year students, indicated they are first in their family to attend college, approximately a 12 percent increase from last year; about 16 percent are underrepresented minorities. The College is thrilled to welcome the highest ever number of high achieving students in its incoming class: 50 percent\u2014up from 29 percent last year! These students enter OSU with a high school GPA of 3.75 and above. The College has the highest\u00a0number of high-achieving students at Oregon State.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Science welcomed 180 transfer students, the majority of whom transfer into the College as upperclassmen\u2014about 50 percent are juniors and 18 percent are seniors. Nearly 20 percent of transfer students had a GPA of 3.75 or above. Thirty-five percent of incoming transfer students indicated they are first in their family to attend college and about 12 percent are underrepresented minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The College\u2019s ability to attract diverse students points to the strength of campus-wide science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lsamp.oregonstate.edu\/\">LSAMP<\/a>\u00a0(Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stemleaders.oregonstate.edu\/\">OSU STEM Leaders<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/main.oregonstate.edu\/home-away-home\/society-advancement-chicanos-and-native-americans-science\">SACNAS<\/a>\u00a0(Society for the Advancement of Chicanos\/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science), which help to connect and fuel students interest in science through workshops, peer mentoring and research experiences helping them succeed both on campus and in their future professions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to welcome the class of 2022 to the College of Science. I hope they take advantage of the many opportunities to expand their personal, professional and intellectual horizons in science.\u00a0Our faculty and advisors are committed to student success,\u201d said Roy Haggerty, dean of the College of Science.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A look inside the class of 2022: Women dominate<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The majority of the 728 students in the class of 2022\u201468 percent\u2014identified as female, which constitutes the highest number of first-year women students in science.<\/p>\n<p>While nationwide, women have been enrolling in and graduating from college in greater numbers than men for the last few decades, the data on women pursuing undergraduate degrees in science and mathematics tends to fluctuate across disciplines and fields. <a href=\"https:\/\/nscresearchcenter.org\/snapshotreport-science-and-engineering-degree-completion-by-gender\/\">Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center<\/a>\u00a0show that in 2016, 42 percent women and 58 percent men earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in mathematics. In biological and agricultural sciences, the numbers were 60 percent women and 40 percent men.<\/p>\n<p>First-year science students at OSU who were surveyed identified as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>59 % white<\/li>\n<li>17 % Asian\/Asian American<\/li>\n<li>12 % Hispanic or Latino<\/li>\n<li>4 %\u00a0 Multiethnic<\/li>\n<li>2 % American Indian or Alaskan Native<\/li>\n<li>1.5 % Pacific Islander\/Native Hawaiian<\/li>\n<li>0.4 % Black or African American<\/li>\n<li>3.6% declined to identify their ethnicity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among underrepresented minority students, Asian students numbered the highest this year at 129, followed by Hispanic students at 90.<\/p>\n<p>The variation in enrollment data among various minority groups can be viewed in the context of national trends. A 2017\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/2017\/nsf17310\/static\/downloads\/nsf17310-digest.pdf\">National Science Foundation Report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<em>Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering<\/em>\u00a0states that the share of Hispanics in science and engineering fields has doubled in the past 20 years, with the increase accelerating in the last decade.\u00a0The same study reports that while African American student enrollment has steadily increased in psychology, social science and biological sciences, it has declined in \u201cthe other science and engineering fields, most notably in mathematics and statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The crossovers: High-achieving, first-gen and underrepresented<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Parsing the numbers further shows a strong correlation between a first-year student\u2019s ethnicity and her or his parents\u2019 educational background: nearly 19 percent of the 193 students who are the first in their family to attend college are also underrepresented minority students. Of the 375 high-achieving students, only 19 percent or 73 are first-generation students, an increase of 9 percent from last year; and just 7 percent or 26 are minority students (see infographic below). About five percent or 20 out of 375 high achieving students are both minority and first-generation students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Science majors by the numbers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Like in previous years, biology and the biohealth sciences majors attracted the greatest number of students\u201434 percent or 237 students, down nearly 6 percent from fall 2017; and 28 percent or 194 students, up 2 percent from last fall, respectively. Of 744 students, 2.6. percent are biochemistry and biophysics majors, 9 percent are biochemistry and molecular biology students (increased), 5.6 percent are zoology majors, 8.6. percent are chemistry majors (increased), 4.7 percent will major in mathematics, 4 percent are physics majors (increased), and 3.6 percent are microbiology students (increased).<\/p>\n<p>With a strong laboratory and research focus, our recently launched Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major has proven popular and almost doubled its second cohort with 64 students.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Mathematics welcomed 33 first-year students, continuing to break its record for the highest number of math majors set in 2013. The number of physics students too has risen steadily at 29 first-year students, the highest since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/profession\/data\/annual-survey\/enrollments-degrees\">According to the\u00a02016 Annual Survey of Mathematical Sciences<\/a>\u00a0published by AMS, total undergraduate enrollments for mathematics, applied math, statistics and biostatistics across public and private universities (medium, small and large) has increased slightly from 2,481,000 to 2,518,000 since 2012. Mathematics doctoral departments such as OSU awarded 13 percent more bachelor\u2019s degrees in 2016 as compared to 2015, an increase of five percent. Of those, 40 percent were earned by women, a nine percent increase. In 2016, master\u2019s degrees awarded increased by 12 percent from 2015. Once again 40 percent of master\u2019s degrees were earned by women, a 6% increase during the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Science welcomes 744 new first-year students and 180 transfer students in fall 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1168293,911,1168288],"tags":[656332],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-success","category-students","category-winter-2019","tag-diversity-in-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6vHeb-2DP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8248,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2017\/11\/class-of-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":10157,"position":0},"title":"Meet our Class of 2021","author":"nayaks","date":"November 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Twenty five percent of freshmen are the first in their family to attend college, 23 percent are underrepresented minorities, and the College has the highest ever number of high achieving students in this incoming class: 37.6 percent.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Biochemistry &amp; 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