Columbia's Schools

Columbia's enrollment statistics by gender from 2002 to 2007 are available online.  Here's a sampling.  

• In Columbia College, women have had a slight and growing edge (50.6 percent of the student body in 2002, and 51.7 in 2007). 
  
• In the j-school, women made up 56 percent of the student body in 2002, which increased to 63.5 percent in 2007 (it peaked at 66.7 percent in 2005).
  
• In the law school, women made up 46.4 percent of the student body in 2002, which dropped a couple of points between 2004 and 2006, and then rebounded to 46.1 percent in 2007.
• In the business school, women made up 29.4 percent of the student body, increasing one percentage point to 31.4 by 2007.
• In the school of social work, women have composed at least 87 percent of the student body since 2002.

Our numbers

Among students who enrolled last fall, the ratio of women to men is two to one. This comes from the Alumni Office's tri-annual newsletter 116th & Broadway.

Highlights from the Fall 2007 issue (PDF):

• 342 new students (including M.A., M.S., Ph.D. and Knight-Bagehot)
• 66 percent of that enrollment are women
• 34 percent are men

Highlights from the Fall 2006 issue (PDF):

• 375 students in the Class of 2007
  
• 62 percent female
• 38 percent male
  

J-school gender split: applying v. enrolling

I came to Columbia last January for the required writing exam. Of the 15 applicants in the testing room, only one was male. Did anyone else witness such an extreme split?

I'm trying to find out from the admissions office if the gender breakdown of applicants is different from those who enroll.