Move-In Week At UConn: A Look At The Numbers

STORRS, CT — Nearly 7,400 new undergraduates are joining the University of Connecticut this week, including about 6,400 first-year students across all campuses and almost 1,000 transferring to the university from other institutions.

Classes begin Aug. 31 after a week of students moving into residence halls, including new housing at UConn Hartford and expanded housing at UConn Stamford.

Overall, UConn expects to have about 25,900 undergraduates enrolled for the fall semester across all campuses. More than 21,000 of them will be based in Storrs, with the rest at Stamford, Hartford, Waterbury, and Avery Point.

The student body will include about 4,500 first-year students starting at Storrs, earning their place in a competitive application pool of about 60,000 people from around the globe. About 1,900 other first-year students will be enrolled at the regional campuses.

This year’s first-year students from Connecticut come from 158 of the state's 169 municipalities, along with 48 states and 78 countries.

Thousands of graduate and professional-level students also start classes soon at all campuses, including at the schools of law and social work, both in Hartford; and the schools of medicine and dental medicine at UConn Health in Farmington.

The new first-year undergraduate students will include 147 valedictorians and salutatorians of their high school graduating classes, and about 600 who accepted invitations to join the highly competitive UConn Honors Program.

About 37 percent of the first-year students in the Class of 2030 across all campuses represent the first generation in their family attending higher education.

UConn Hartford is welcoming about 685 new first-year students – a jump from last year's approximately 490 newcomers, and driven in large part by the opening of its first student housing, the Pratt Street Residence Hall.

Overall, UConn Hartford expects to have more than 1,300 undergraduate students enrolled, along with its large population of master's and professional degree students.

At UConn Stamford, the largest regional campus, about 2,400 undergraduates will be enrolled. Of those, more than 900 are first-year students.

About 290 newcomers are joining UConn Waterbury, where the total undergraduate enrollment will be nearly 700; and more than 150 newcomers are enrolling at UConn Avery Point, where the total undergraduate population will be more than 400.