From its modest beginnings, UA has grown to 35,000 students and national prominence
Another record-size class of incoming UA students will unload their bags and step onto campus for their first class at UA on Aug. 26.
While students from Tucson will have longstanding familiarity with UA, others will come to campus having never seen UA ÷ aside from glossy viewbook photos.
Hereās a look at the institution this yearās freshmen will find.
Founded in 1885, 27 years before Arizona became a state, UA has grown to a university of 35,747 students. In the first year of class, in 1891, there were only six faculty and 32 students.
In the past two years, the freshmen class has broken records in terms of size. In fall 2001 there were about 6,100 freshmen, shattering the former record of 5,526 set in 2000, according to the UA Fact Book of 2001-2002.
Of the total number of students, 27,532 are undergraduates and 20 percent of undergraduates typically live on campus.
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