Enrollment Trends at Columbia

The student population at Columbia College is 6,046 (5,675 undergraduate and 371 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 10,900 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Columbia is 93.86% which is decreased by 10,323 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 577 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.49 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

3,845 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -58.83% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 12,133 where 6,046 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

93.86% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.14% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 10,323 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 577 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.49 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Columbia than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	16,946	15,998	6,489	9,509	948	378	570
2014-15	16,567 -379	15,639 -359	6,442 -47	9,197 -312	928 -20	358 -20	570 0
2015-16	14,759 -1,808	13,869 -1,770	5,707 -735	8,162 -1,035	890 -38	358 0	532 -38
2016-17	16,413 1,654	15,588 1,719	6,634 927	8,954 792	825 -65	321 -37	504 -28
2017-18	13,492 -2,921	12,754 -2,834	5,468 -1,166	7,286 -1,668	738 -87	256 -65	482 -22
2018-19	12,080 -1,412	11,416 -1,338	4,993 -475	6,423 -863	664 -74	249 -7	415 -67
2019-20	9,913 -2,167	9,387 -2,029	3,987 -1,006	5,400 -1,023	526 -138	190 -59	336 -79
2020-21	8,347 -1,566	7,861 -1,526	3,281 -706	4,580 -820	486 -40	181 -9	305 -31
2021-22	6,765 -1,582	6,351 -1,510	2,547 -734	3,804 -776	414 -72	153 -28	261 -44
2022-23	6,046 -719	5,675 -676	2,296 -251	3,379 -425	371 -43	135 -18	236 -25
Average	12,133	11,454	4,784	6,669	679	258	421

Columbia College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 11,454 where 5,675 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 Columbia College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	15,998	9,442	3,799	5,643	6,556	2,690	3,866
2014-15	15,639	9,177	3,811	5,366	6,462	2,631	3,831
2015-16	13,869	8,179	3,320	4,859	5,690	2,387	3,303
2016-17	15,588	6,378	2,440	3,938	9,210	4,194	5,016
2017-18	12,754	5,163	2,131	3,032	7,591	3,337	4,254
2018-19	11,416	4,469	1,815	2,654	6,947	3,178	3,769
2019-20	9,387	3,620	1,411	2,209	5,767	2,576	3,191
2020-21	7,861	3,162	1,192	1,970	4,699	2,089	2,610
2021-22	6,351	2,683	1,000	1,683	3,668	1,547	2,121
2022-23	5,675	2,349	892	1,457	3,326	1,404	1,922
Average	11,454	11,454	2,181	3,281	11,454	2,603	3,388

Columbia College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 679 where 371 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 Columbia College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	948	130	47	83	818	331	487
2014-15	928	134	47	87	794	311	483
2015-16	890	115	46	69	775	312	463
2016-17	825	103	34	69	722	287	435
2017-18	738	92	28	64	646	228	418
2018-19	664	99	36	63	565	213	352
2019-20	526	74	30	44	452	160	292
2020-21	486	67	31	36	419	150	269
2021-22	414	81	26	55	333	127	206
2022-23	371	61	22	39	310	113	197
Average	679	679	35	61	679	223	360

Columbia College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 54.23%. The percentage was 56.60% 10 years ago and Columbia still has a high percentage of white students. 2.15% of enrolled students is Asian and 20.81% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Columbia 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	179	228	3,949	1,187	75	9,591	369
2014-15	166	231	3,950	1,224	84	9,256	423
2015-16	151	205	3,459	1,187	61	8,353	391
2016-17	162	265	3,760	1,428	71	9,086	497
2017-18	117	237	2,908	1,218	50	7,647	487
2018-19	74	191	2,616	1,128	54	6,790	532
2019-20	63	170	2,222	904	35	5,496	497
2020-21	38	160	1,745	846	25	4,668	469
2021-22	27	136	1,404	731	21	3,788	381
2022-23	32	130	1,258	677	20	3,279	379
Average	101	195	2,727	1,053	50	6,795	443

Columbia College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

3,845 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 64% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -58.83% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Columbia College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	16,567	9,340	1,586	5,641
2015-16	14,759	8,483	1,387	4,889
2016-17	16,413	9,308	2,754	4,351
2017-18	13,492	7,463	2,264	3,765
2018-19	12,080	7,023	2,154	2,903
2019-20	9,913	5,829	1,739	2,345
2020-21	8,347	5,247	1,289	1,811
2021-22	6,765	4,157	1,063	1,545
2022-23	6,046	3,845	854	1,347
Average	11,598	6,744	1,677	3,177

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