Enrollment Trends at Clarke

The student population at Clarke University is 965 (785 undergraduate and 180 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 260 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Clarke is 81.35% which is decreased by 226 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 34 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 0.97 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

80 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 1,900.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,020 where 965 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

81.35% of total students is undergraduate students and 18.65% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 226 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 34 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.97 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Clarke.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,225	1,011	342	669	214	57	157
2014-15	1,200 -25	949 -62	304 -38	645 -24	251 37	60 3	191 34
2015-16	1,075 -125	868 -81	291 -13	577 -68	207 -44	40 -20	167 -24
2016-17	1,043 -32	801 -67	272 -19	529 -48	242 35	44 4	198 31
2017-18	1,039 -4	768 -33	275 3	493 -36	271 29	62 18	209 11
2018-19	1,004 -35	744 -24	303 28	441 -52	260 -11	62 0	198 -11
2019-20	904 -100	685 -59	314 11	371 -70	219 -41	43 -19	176 -22
2020-21	855 -49	659 -26	322 8	337 -34	196 -23	50 7	146 -30
2021-22	888 33	717 58	391 69	326 -11	171 -25	38 -12	133 -13
2022-23	965 77	785 68	429 38	356 30	180 9	60 22	120 -13
Average	1,020	799	324	474	221	52	170

Clarke University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 799 where 785 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 Clarke University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,011	877	292	585	134	50	84
2014-15	949	835	259	576	114	45	69
2015-16	868	792	264	528	76	27	49
2016-17	801	732	251	481	69	21	48
2017-18	768	708	253	455	60	22	38
2018-19	744	711	294	417	33	9	24
2019-20	685	645	300	345	40	14	26
2020-21	659	634	313	321	25	9	16
2021-22	717	690	382	308	27	9	18
2022-23	785	706	394	312	79	35	44
Average	799	799	300	433	799	24	42

Clarke University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 221 where 180 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 Clarke University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	214	137	40	97	77	17	60
2014-15	251	163	44	119	88	16	72
2015-16	207	148	30	118	59	10	49
2016-17	242	175	33	142	67	11	56
2017-18	271	178	37	141	93	25	68
2018-19	260	167	42	125	93	20	73
2019-20	219	149	32	117	70	11	59
2020-21	196	152	41	111	44	9	35
2021-22	171	122	29	93	49	9	40
2022-23	180	92	25	67	88	35	53
Average	221	221	35	113	221	16	57

Clarke University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.75%. The percentage was 86.37% 10 years ago and Clarke still has a high percentage of white students. 0.93% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.81% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Clarke 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	7	9	38	36	1	1,058	0
2014-15	1	9	33	44	0	1,059	16
2015-16	0	9	33	62	0	930	19
2016-17	0	12	46	56	8	867	20
2017-18	4	11	53	65	6	850	19
2018-19	2	11	62	75	6	775	17
2019-20	3	8	59	81	4	661	21
2020-21	4	6	69	80	1	583	29
2021-22	1	8	97	79	1	547	36
2022-23	1	9	114	83	2	538	74
Average	2	9	60	66	3	787	25

Clarke University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

80 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 8% of total students. The number of online students has increased 1,900.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Clarke University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,200	4	303	893
2015-16	1,075	100	0	975
2016-17	1,043	19	90	934
2017-18	1,039	65	94	880
2018-19	1,004	75	63	866
2019-20	904	51	106	747
2020-21	855	31	539	285
2021-22	888	32	517	339
2022-23	965	80	236	649
Average	997	51	216	730

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