Enrollment Trends at Bridgewater

The student population at Bridgewater College is 1,421 (1,385 undergraduate and 36 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 427 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Bridgewater is 97.47% which is decreased by 463 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 36 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 1.10 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

8 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 300.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,733 where 1,421 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

97.47% of total students is undergraduate students and 2.53% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 463 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 36 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.10 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Bridgewater.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,848	1,848	834	1,014	0	0	0
2014-15	1,785 -63	1,785 -63	823 -11	962 -52	0 0	0 0	0 0
2015-16	1,834 49	1,834 49	864 41	970 8	0 0	0 0	0 0
2016-17	1,882 48	1,882 48	876 12	1,006 36	0 0	0 0	0 0
2017-18	1,889 7	1,882 0	858 -18	1,024 18	7 7	1 1	6 6
2018-19	1,857 -32	1,839 -43	818 -40	1,021 -3	18 11	7 6	11 5
2019-20	1,754 -103	1,713 -126	767 -51	946 -75	41 23	15 8	26 15
2020-21	1,597 -157	1,552 -161	706 -61	846 -100	45 4	19 4	26 0
2021-22	1,463 -134	1,427 -125	660 -46	767 -79	36 -9	13 -6	23 -3
2022-23	1,421 -42	1,385 -42	666 6	719 -48	36 0	10 -3	26 3
Average	1,733	1,715	787	928	18	7	12

Bridgewater College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,715 where 1,385 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 Bridgewater College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,848	1,840	830	1,010	8	4	4
2014-15	1,785	1,766	815	951	19	8	11
2015-16	1,834	1,823	858	965	11	6	5
2016-17	1,882	1,876	873	1,003	6	3	3
2017-18	1,882	1,876	853	1,023	6	5	1
2018-19	1,839	1,832	816	1,016	7	2	5
2019-20	1,713	1,707	764	943	6	3	3
2020-21	1,552	1,539	700	839	13	6	7
2021-22	1,427	1,416	653	763	11	7	4
2022-23	1,385	1,380	664	716	5	2	3
Average	1,715	1,715	783	923	1,715	5	5

Bridgewater College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 18 where 36 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 Bridgewater 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	7	7	1	6	0	0	0
2018-19	18	18	7	11	0	0	0
2019-20	41	39	15	24	2	0	2
2020-21	45	41	19	22	4	0	4
2021-22	36	33	12	21	3	1	2
2022-23	36	33	9	24	3	1	2
Average	18	18	6	11	18	0	1

Bridgewater College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 67.00%. The percentage was 78.79% 10 years ago and Bridgewater still has a high percentage of white students. 1.27% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.61% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bridgewater 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	6	15	165	55	1	1,456	76
2014-15	8	17	179	74	1	1,344	83
2015-16	6	21	197	87	1	1,347	90
2016-17	5	23	248	105	1	1,285	105
2017-18	5	21	296	122	1	1,250	96
2018-19	6	24	308	128	3	1,191	102
2019-20	6	18	273	128	3	1,137	104
2020-21	3	19	244	125	4	1,021	103
2021-22	4	21	198	111	4	948	106
2022-23	1	18	165	104	3	952	92
Average	5	20	227	104	2	1,193	96

Bridgewater College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

8 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 increased 300.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Bridgewater College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,785	2	18	1,765
2015-16	1,834	0	0	1,834
2016-17	1,882	0	0	1,882
2017-18	1,889	0	0	1,889
2018-19	1,857	0	0	1,857
2019-20	1,754	0	12	1,742
2020-21	1,597	0	14	1,583
2021-22	1,463	0	47	1,416
2022-23	1,421	8	57	1,356
Average	1,720	1	16	1,703

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