Enrollment Trends at B CU

The student population at Bethune-Cookman University is 2,727 (2,628 undergraduate and 99 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,060 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at B CU is 96.37% which is decreased by 1,096 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 36 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 1.71 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

33 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -99.18% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 3,461 where 2,727 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

96.37% of total students is undergraduate students and 3.63% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 1,096 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 36 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.71 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in B CU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Bethune-Cookman University since 2013.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	3,787	3,724	1,516	2,208	63	32	31
2014-15	4,044 257	3,899 175	1,604 88	2,295 87	145 82	63 31	82 51
2015-16	3,831 -213	3,679 -220	1,524 -80	2,155 -140	152 7	63 0	89 7
2016-17	3,934 103	3,796 117	1,509 -15	2,287 132	138 -14	48 -15	90 1
2017-18	4,143 209	3,992 196	1,532 23	2,460 173	151 13	54 6	97 7
2018-19	3,773 -370	3,620 -372	1,359 -173	2,261 -199	153 2	58 4	95 -2
2019-20	2,901 -872	2,778 -842	1,036 -323	1,742 -519	123 -30	43 -15	80 -15
2020-21	2,845 -56	2,746 -32	996 -40	1,750 8	99 -24	36 -7	63 -17
2021-22	2,624 -221	2,513 -233	946 -50	1,567 -183	111 12	46 10	65 2
2022-23	2,727 103	2,628 115	971 25	1,657 90	99 -12	36 -10	63 -2
Average	3,461	3,338	1,299	2,038	123	48	76

Bethune-Cookman University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 3,338 where 2,628 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 Bethune-Cookman University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	3,724	3,611	1,472	2,139	113	44	69
2014-15	3,899	3,695	1,522	2,173	204	82	122
2015-16	3,679	3,497	1,456	2,041	182	68	114
2016-17	3,796	3,584	1,425	2,159	212	84	128
2017-18	3,992	3,755	1,438	2,317	237	94	143
2018-19	3,620	3,483	1,301	2,182	137	58	79
2019-20	2,778	2,708	1,007	1,701	70	29	41
2020-21	2,746	2,614	937	1,677	132	59	73
2021-22	2,513	2,384	893	1,491	129	53	76
2022-23	2,628	2,527	936	1,591	101	35	66
Average	3,338	3,338	1,239	1,947	3,338	61	91

Bethune-Cookman University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 123 where 99 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 Bethune-Cookman University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	63	60	31	29	3	1	2
2014-15	145	101	54	47	44	9	35
2015-16	152	108	51	57	44	12	32
2016-17	138	97	37	60	41	11	30
2017-18	151	125	45	80	26	9	17
2018-19	153	125	48	77	28	10	18
2019-20	123	104	37	67	19	6	13
2020-21	99	80	26	54	19	10	9
2021-22	111	91	37	54	20	9	11
2022-23	99	79	27	52	20	9	11
Average	123	123	39	58	123	9	18

Bethune-Cookman University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 0.73% and the percentage of black students is 79.83% at Bethune-Cookman University. 0.07% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bethune-Cookman University 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	4	9	3,373	107	12	88	69
2014-15	4	9	3,580	115	8	78	77
2015-16	3	4	3,222	109	6	73	110
2016-17	3	2	3,080	112	2	65	81
2017-18	5	3	3,217	127	1	61	99
2018-19	7	3	3,029	126	1	46	86
2019-20	6	0	2,282	124	1	28	77
2020-21	6	2	2,308	137	2	32	72
2021-22	5	3	2,122	133	0	33	71
2022-23	5	2	2,177	159	0	20	70
Average	5	4	2,839	125	3	52	81

Bethune-Cookman University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

33 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 1% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -99.18% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Bethune-Cookman University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	4,044	4,044	0	0
2015-16	3,831	0	130	3,701
2016-17	3,934	1,808	0	2,126
2017-18	4,143	314	1,387	2,442
2018-19	3,773	175	3,598	0
2019-20	2,901	104	2,797	0
2020-21	2,845	87	2,758	0
2021-22	2,624	53	2,571	0
2022-23	2,727	33	2,694	0
Average	3,425	735	1,771	919

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