Twenty-three percent of the students reported they were born outside the United States, and another 37 percent said they have at least one parent born outside the country. Thirty-five percent said English was not their first language.
The findings reflect the diversity of California and follow UC enrollment patterns that have seen increasing numbers of Asian and, to a lesser extent, Latino students in recent years.
Migration & 1 state's university
Migration bellwether: A new survey found that more than half of the University of California's undergraduates are immigrants or children of immigrants. (Thanks to ImmigrationProf Blog for the head's up.) Michelle Locke of the Associated Press further reports on the questionnaire distributed throughout the multicampus system:
