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WELCOME TO Facts and FiguresENROLLMENT PROFILE

Total daytime students 33,511Undergraduate 30,745Graduate 2,766Male/Female 50/50%Single/Married 73/27%

FRESHMAN PROFILE

Applicants 11,356Accepted 7,775Average applicant ACT 28.6Average high school GPA 3.87

ACADEMICS

Undergraduate majors 181Undergraduate minors 107Master’s programs 62Doctoral programs 26

2020–21 TUITION

LATTER-DAY SAINT

Undergraduate $2,985Graduate $3,755Law/Business schools $6,930

NON LATTER-DAY SAINT

Undergraduate $5,970Graduate $7,510Law/Business schools $13,860

DEGREES GRANTED

Bachelor’s degrees 6,745Master’s degrees 1,019Doctoral degrees 232Total degrees 7,996Alumni with degrees 344,023Total living alumni 432,724

TOP STATES REPRESENTED

Utah 32% Idaho 5%California 10% Texas 5%Arizona 5%

STUDENT ETHNICITY

INTERNATIONAL REACH

• International students: 5% or 1,496• Countries represented: 104• Top three nations represented: 1. Canada 2. South Korea 3. China• 229 study abroad programs in 80 countries

Caucasian 81%Hispanic 6%Asian/Pacific 3% Islander

Black 1%American Indian <1%Two or more races 4%Other 4%

University Highlights

• Eight different BYU performing groups, consisting of more than 160 performers, spent two weeks in China in the summer of 2019 as part of a 40th-anniversary return tour that highlighted a relationship BYU and China have shared since 1979.

• In the summer of 2019, 22 BYU students, along with faculty and clinicians, traveled to Samoa to help screen children for rheumatic heart disease, a deadly condition prevalent in Samoa. The group visited 24 schools and screened 6,288 children.

• Senior All-American Clayton Young won the men’s 10,000 meter at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

• For the first time as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell M. Nelson spoke in a devotional address at BYU in 2019.

Cougar Athletics2019 HIGHLIGHTS

• Men’s cross country wins national championship; women’s cross country finishes 2nd nationally

• Women’s soccer finishes regular season undefeated and advances to Elite 8

• Women’s basketball wins WCC tournament and advances to NCAA second round

• Men’s baseball wins WCC regular season title and ends regular season in top 25

World Languages at BYURanked No. 3 for the most bachelor degrees in a foreign language, BYU teaches twice as many advanced classes as lower division classes. Approximately 65 percent of BYU students speak a second language, with 131 languages spoken on campus. Of those students who have served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 45 percent learned a language during their service and many achieve advanced proficiency.

Current language offerings include:

• 63 different languages ranging from Arabic to Welsh

• Competency-based language certificates in 15 languages

• Foreign language student housing in 10 languages

• Translation and localization courses

• Graduate courses in language, literature, and second language teaching

Y FACTS 2020

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