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Enrollment


Enrollment of Students by Classes, Fall 2007*

  Men   Women    Total 
Class of 2008 215   229   444
Class of 2009 195   185   380
Class of 2010 242   274   516
Class of 2011 225   250   475
Visiting & Part-Time Special Students   11   25    36
Total  888    963    1851

* Numbers include students on campus as well as those in Hamilton-sponsored off-campus programs. Of the 125 students (mostly juniors) off campus last fall on approved academic leaves of absence, 44 were studying at foreign institutions or in non-Hamilton programs.

Geographic Distribution of Students by State and Country, 2007-08
State
   Students
   State
   Students
New York   580   North Carolina   7
Massachusetts   233   Tennessee   6
Connecticut   170   Missouri   5
New Jersey   126   Wisconsin   5
Pennsylvania   97   Idaho   4
Vermont    38   Kansas   4
California   47   Alaska   3
Maryland   43   Indiana   3
New Hampshire   36   Louisiana   3
Illinois   31   New Mexico   3
Maine   27   Oklahoma   3
Colorado   26   Alabama   2
Rhode Island   20   Arkansas   2  
Virginia   19   Delaware   2
Washington   19   Hawaii   2
Minnesota   18   Iowa   2
Ohio   17   Kentucky   2
Florida   14   Nevada   2
Georgia   13   Utah   2
Texas   12   Wyoming   2
District of Columbia   11   Mississippi   1
Michigan   9   Montana   1
Arizona   8   North Dakota   1
Oregon   8   West Virginia   1
South Carolina   8   Area Europe   3
             
             
Country   Students
   Country   Students
Canada   16           Bangladesh   1
China   14   Bosnia/Herzegovina   1
India   7   Bulgaria   1
Nepal   4   Czech Republic   1
Japan   4   Dominican Republic   1
South Africa   4   Georgia   1
South Korea   4   Ghana   1
United Kingdom   4   Greece   1
Bolivia   2   Guyana   1
Botswana   2   Israel   1
Columbia   2   Jamaica   1
Ecuador   2   Kuwait   1 
El Salvador   2   Lebanon   1
France   2   Lithuania   1
Germany   2   Morocco   1
Honduras   2   Norway   1
Hong Kong   2   Poland   1 
Kenya   2   Philippines   1
Mexico   2   Saudi Arabia   1
Pakistan   2   Senegal   1
Romania   2   Sri Lanka   1
Singapore   2   Sweden   1
Turkey   2   Tanzania   1
Zimbabwe   2   Vietnam   1
Angola   1   Yugoslavia   1
Argentina   1        


Student Retention

Of the 465 full-time first-year students who enrolled at Hamilton in the fall of 2001, 85.54 percent were graduated by the spring of 2005; 90.63 percent by the spring of 2006.