New Class Profile

Meet our New Undergraduate Students

Each year, Linfield University’s McMinnville campus is excited to welcome a new group of first year and transfer undergraduate students! Below is the class profile information for our Fall 2024 incoming class.

GENERAL INFORMATION

First-Year: 387

Transfer: 46

Gender

Women: 57% (246)

Men: 39% (168)

Transgender or Non-Binary: 2% (9)

Prefer Not to Say or Other: less than 1% (4)

Unknown: less than 1% (4)

Student background 

Students of Color: 44%

First-Generation (First-Year): 50%

Based on IPEDS classification:

• American Indian or Alaska Native: less than 1%
• Asian: 5%
• Black or African American: 4%
• Hispanic of any race: 25%
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 1.4%
• Race/ethnicity unknown: 1.15%
• Two or more races: 8.3%
• White: 52%
• Nonresident Alien: 2%

WHERE OUR STUDENTS ARE FROM

Geographic Representation (15 states, 7 countries):

• Oregon: 63% (272)
• Washington: 13% (54)
• California: 9% (39)
• Hawaii: 4% (18)
• Alaska: 2.5% (11)

We have also admitted students from Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Guam, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin.

And from these countries: Argentina, Ethiopia, India, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Thailand

First Languages and Languages Spoken at Home (17):

American Sign Language, Amharic, French, German, Hindi, Hawaiian, Japanese, Mongolian, Oromo, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese

ACADEMIC PROFILES

First-Year Students

• Average weighted GPA: 3.372 - 3.965 (mid-50 percent)

Transfer Students

• Average GPA: 2.89 – 3.70 (mid-50 percent)
• Average unofficial credit transfer: 64.3 transferrable credits