Enrollment figures

[Benjamin Rifkin]

To clarify, here are the enrollment figures that you can download for
yourselves at the ADFL site:

2002 enrollments in US Institutions of Higher Education as per MLA 2002
census

Spanish 746,267
French 201,979
German 91,100
Italian 63,899
ASL 60,781
Japanese 52,238
Chinese 34,153
Latin 29,841
Russian 23,921
Ancient Greek 20,376
Biblical hebrew 14,183
Arabic 10,584
Modern Hebrew 8,619
Portuguese 8,385
Korean 5,211
Other languages 25,716

[I excluded ASL and Latin from my earlier comment because those languages
would also not be qualified as LCTLs.]

I believe that Russian loses enrollments to Latin because Latin has a
greater presence in US high schools than does Russian, especially after the
closure of so many high school programs in the 1990s.  However, with the
advent of the new advanced placement examination in Russian, one may hope
that high schools may come back to the idea of offering Russian again.

Total 1,397,253

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor and Chair, Slavic Dept.
1432 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

Director, Title VI Center for Russia, E. Europe & Central Asia (CREECA)
210 Ingraham Hall, 1550 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-3379; Fax (608) 890-0267
http://www.wisc.edu/creeca






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