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UC DAVIS IS NO 4 AAU

C Davis is the third largest of the elite 9-campus University of California system with a total enrollment of 24,866. Asian Americans are 37.1% of that number, making UCD the 4th ranked Asian American University after UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Irvine.
     On March 26 we named UC San Diego in the Number 4 slot based on the fact that 37% of its undergraduate enrollment of 17,000 is Asian American. However, current figures show that UC Davis has a larger undergraduate enrollment of 19,343 with a slightly higher Asian American percentage. What's more, due to its large bio-sciences department and medical school, UC Davis's graduate and professional divisions have a larger Asian American percentage (about 35%) than does UC San Diego (about 29%).
     Therefore, UC San Diego should have been placed in the Number 5 position.
     The UC Davis Asian population is broken down as: Chinese/Chinese American, 14.9%; Filipino/Pilipino, 4.1%; Japanese/Japanese American, 2.1%; Korean/Korean American, 2.4%; Pacific Islander, 0.8%; Other Asian/Southeast Asian, 8.5%; and East Indian/Pakistani 2.3%. The 2.3% difference comes from factoring in a proportionate share of the 5.3% of students whose ethnicity is "unstated".
     Based on a similar computation, Whites are 45.1% of UC Davis enrollment.
     The Asian percentage would be 2% higher if the 4% identified as foreign students is included in the figures, as Asians typically make up 50-60% of the foreign student enrollments of UC campuses.