Enrollment Trends at BLC

The student population at Bethany Lutheran College is 830 (792 undergraduate and 38 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 251 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at BLC is 95.42% which is increased by 213 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 38 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 1.07 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

129 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by % since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 675 where 830 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

95.42% of total students is undergraduate students and 4.58% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 213 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 38 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.07 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in BLC.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Bethany Lutheran College since 2013.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	579	579	283	296	0	0	0
2014-15	531 -48	531 -48	251 -32	280 -16	0 0	0 0	0 0
2015-16	524 -7	524 -7	236 -15	288 8	0 0	0 0	0 0
2016-17	587 63	587 63	254 18	333 45	0 0	0 0	0 0
2017-18	651 64	651 64	303 49	348 15	0 0	0 0	0 0
2018-19	739 88	739 88	352 49	387 39	0 0	0 0	0 0
2019-20	741 2	741 2	331 -21	410 23	0 0	0 0	0 0
2020-21	769 28	769 28	352 21	417 7	0 0	0 0	0 0
2021-22	798 29	781 12	349 -3	432 15	17 17	11 11	6 6
2022-23	830 32	792 11	381 32	411 -21	38 21	20 9	18 12
Average	675	669	309	360	6	3	2

Bethany Lutheran College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 669 where 792 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2022-2023. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Bethany Lutheran College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	579	552	269	283	27	14	13
2014-15	531	500	237	263	31	14	17
2015-16	524	488	222	266	36	14	22
2016-17	587	514	220	294	73	34	39
2017-18	651	522	247	275	129	56	73
2018-19	739	593	286	307	146	66	80
2019-20	741	591	268	323	150	63	87
2020-21	769	633	301	332	136	51	85
2021-22	781	651	301	350	130	48	82
2022-23	792	632	312	320	160	69	91
Average	669	669	266	301	669	43	59

Bethany Lutheran College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 6 where 38 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2022-2023. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Bethany Lutheran College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2014-15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2015-16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017-18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018-19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019-20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020-21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2021-22	17	14	8	6	3	3	0
2022-23	38	35	19	16	3	1	2
Average	6	6	3	2	6	0	0

Bethany Lutheran College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 66.51%. The percentage was 85.32% 10 years ago and BLC still has a high percentage of white students. 1.81% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.65% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bethany Lutheran College over the past 11 years (2013-2023).

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	2013-14	3	5	18	18	1	494	14
2014-15	3	3	14	16	1	465	12
2015-16	2	1	15	13	1	464	7
2016-17	2	2	13	22	1	485	14
2017-18	1	4	18	29	0	539	16
2018-19	0	10	18	38	0	571	17
2019-20	2	17	19	42	1	531	24
2020-21	2	17	22	29	1	547	32
2021-22	2	23	22	52	1	527	26
2022-23	4	15	22	62	0	552	31
Average	2	10	18	32	1	518	19

Bethany Lutheran College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

129 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 16% of total students. The number of online students has decreased % since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Bethany Lutheran College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	531	0	0	531
2015-16	524	0	0	524
2016-17	587	43	518	26
2017-18	651	104	81	466
2018-19	739	108	177	454
2019-20	741	105	151	485
2020-21	769	75	203	491
2021-22	798	102	192	504
2022-23	830	129	224	477
Average	686	74	172	440

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