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The
Classification summary includes all students, both full
and part time.
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Freshmen
(First Time) counts only first time full time students classified
as freshmen. Continuing freshmen are counted separately
in Freshmen (Other). In past years, this group has not
been segregated in the profiles.
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Medical
Residents and Fellows are included in the overall counts
and in the university's FTE (all as full time). They are
also included in the Gender category but not in any of the other
demographic categories.
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Average
Course Load is computed in the usual manner except that
those students enrolled for zero hours (for example thesis and
or dissertation) are ignored for purposes of the calculation.
It is important to remember that the undergraduate colleges
shifted from mostly 4 credit courses to 3 semester hours as
of Fall '95.
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Full
Time Equivalents are computed as the sum of all full time
students plus one-third of the part time count.
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Living
On Campus refers to those students residing in all residence
halls on the uptown campus including Aron but not Rosen.
Hawthorne Hall located on the downtown campus is also not included.
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Over
25 Years Old refers to students who have reached their 25th
birthday by August 1st in the report year.
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New
Admits includes all students admitted for the Fall term
in question including first time freshmen and transfer students,
readmits, guest students etc.
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Foreign
students as of Fall '98 are defined as those students who
are non-resident aliens. This category no longer includes
permanent residents from other countries.
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Ethnic
counts as of Fall '98 include both citizens of the United States
as well as citizens of other nations who are now permanent residents
in this country. Changes in this definition (as
well as that of foreign students) were made in order to remain
consistent with IPEDS reporting.
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Geographic
Regions are those chosen by the office of Institutional
Research and are preset in the SIS database. This summarizes
the student-reported permanent addresses of non-foreign students.
New Orleans (defined as any address bearing a ZIP prefix of
700 or 701) was first listed as a separate area in 1989.
Prior to '89 New Orleans area students were included in the
Louisiana region.
Note: Most
Engineering graduate level students were transferred to the
Graduate School after the 2003 profiles were published.