More facts and figures from December Commencement

As compiled by Deborah Furlong and the Office of Institutional Research:



• Undergraduate degree candidates range in age from 18 to 63, with an average age of 27. Sixty-three percent are under age 25.



• Seventy percent are female and 30 percent are male.  The applicants’ racial and ethnic diversity mirrors the campus as a whole, with 92% coming from white backgrounds, 7% from U.S. minority groups and 1% from countries outside the United States.


•  Local high schools with the most graduating UW-Green Bay seniors on Saturday are Preble, 18; Bay Port, 13; East and Southwest, 12 each; followed by Ashwaubenon, 8; and Pulaski and West, 7 each.



• Graduates also come from Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia.



• Over a quarter of graduates – 28% – completed an associate’s degree prior to attending UW-Green Bay, with 25 coming from NWTC, 9 coming from UW-Marinette, 8 coming from UW-Manitowoc, and five each from UW-Fox Valley and Fox Valley Technical College.

• Of the graduates who started at UW-Green Bay as new freshmen, 10% are graduating in less than 4 years; 60% began college 4 ½ years ago and the remaining 30% initially started at least five years ago.