University of California Claims a Record 134,000 Undergraduate Applications up 6% from Last Year. (January 15, 2009)

Although planning a 32% increase in undergraduate fees for the coming academic year as a result of the drastic cuts in state funding, undergraduate applications for entrance to the ten campuses of the University of California are up 6% compared with the current year.

According to data released yesterday by the UC administration the number of students applying for undergraduate admission for northern hemisphere 2010 increased almost 6% — from about 127,000 a year ago to more than 134,000. That 127,000 was in turn a 5% jump from the previous year.

With respect to first year students the applications rose from 98,000 to over 100,000 for the coming academic year while the number of transfer applicants (international and community college students) rose more than 17% to nearly 34,000.

http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2010/10app.html