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Below is a quick glimpse of our student population and the profile of our incoming first-year class.
Harvey Mudd College Student Body
*Data as of Sept 2017
Total Population
- Total undergraduate enrollment: 844 students
- Total graduate enrollment: 0
- Gender distribution: 52 percent male, 48 percent female
- Students living on campus: 99 percent
- From out of state (international excluded): 56 percent
Racial/Ethnic Distribution
- African-American/Black: 4 percent
- American Indian/Alaska Native: < 1 percent
- Asian-American/Asian: 17 percent
- International: 10 percent
- Latino: 18 percent
- Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander: < 1 percent
- White: 34 percent
- Multiracial: 11 percent
- Unknown: 5 percent
Harvey Mudd College Class of 2021
*Data as of Sept 2017
General
- Number of applications: 4,078
- Number admitted: 629
- Enrollment: 225 (48 percent male, 52 percent female)
Schooling of Enrolled Students
- Public school: 56 percent
- Private school: 43 percent
- Home School: < 1 percent
High School Rank of Enrolled Students (for schools that provide percentile or exact rank)
- Students in top 10 percent of class: 90 percent
- Valedictorian or salutatorian: 23 percent
SAT Scores – Middle 50 Percent
- Old SAT Critical Reading: 680–760
- Old SAT Math: 720–800
- New SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 700–750
- New SAT Math: 740–790
- SAT Subject Test Math II: 760–800
ACT Composite – Middle 50 Percent
- 33–35
Geographic Distribution
- 16 foreign countries
- 32 states
- California: 35 percent
- West (excluding California): 4 percent
- Northwest: 12 percent
- Southwest: 6 percent
- Midwest: 6 percent
- Northeast: 15 percent
- South: 10 percent
- Outside of United States: 12 percent
Racial/Ethnic Distribution
- African-American/Black: 5 percent
- Asian-American/Asian: 21 percent
- Latino: 21 percent
- Native: < 1 percent
- White: 31 percent
- Multiracial: 14 percent
- Unknown: 7 percent