Enrollment Trends at Defiance

The student population at Defiance College is 540 (486 undergraduate and 54 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 449 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Defiance is 90.00% which is decreased by 406 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 43 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 0.68 to 1 which means that male students enrolled more than female students.

59 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 268.75% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 674 where 540 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

90.00% of total students is undergraduate students and 10.00% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 406 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 43 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.68 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Defiance than female students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	989	892	462	430	97	48	49
2014-15	920 -69	824 -68	428 -34	396 -34	96 -1	42 -6	54 5
2015-16	751 -169	681 -143	358 -70	323 -73	70 -26	30 -12	40 -14
2016-17	648 -103	608 -73	326 -32	282 -41	40 -30	16 -14	24 -16
2017-18	614 -34	584 -24	329 3	255 -27	30 -10	13 -3	17 -7
2018-19	545 -69	522 -62	278 -51	244 -11	23 -7	13 0	10 -7
2019-20	542 -3	513 -9	284 6	229 -15	29 6	17 4	12 2
2020-21	607 65	562 49	332 48	230 1	45 16	23 6	22 10
2021-22	585 -22	529 -33	315 -17	214 -16	56 11	33 10	23 1
2022-23	540 -45	486 -43	294 -21	192 -22	54 -2	28 -5	26 3
Average	674	620	341	280	54	26	28

Defiance College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 620 where 486 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 Defiance College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	892	732	412	320	160	50	110
2014-15	824	690	385	305	134	43	91
2015-16	681	572	317	255	109	41	68
2016-17	608	508	287	221	100	39	61
2017-18	584	525	300	225	59	29	30
2018-19	522	474	266	208	48	12	36
2019-20	513	464	271	193	49	13	36
2020-21	562	515	321	194	47	11	36
2021-22	529	497	301	196	32	14	18
2022-23	486	468	283	185	18	11	7
Average	620	620	314	230	620	26	49

Defiance College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 54 where 54 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 Defiance College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	97	34	14	20	63	34	29
2014-15	96	17	8	9	79	34	45
2015-16	70	20	12	8	50	18	32
2016-17	40	11	5	6	29	11	18
2017-18	30	4	2	2	26	11	15
2018-19	23	13	7	6	10	6	4
2019-20	29	11	5	6	18	12	6
2020-21	45	19	11	8	26	12	14
2021-22	56	14	10	4	42	23	19
2022-23	54	14	9	5	40	19	21
Average	54	54	8	7	54	18	20

Defiance College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 65.19%. The percentage was 77.15% 10 years ago and Defiance still has a high percentage of white students. 0.19% of enrolled students is Asian and 24.63% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Defiance 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	15	10	108	51	1	763	3
2014-15	9	7	104	45	0	706	6
2015-16	3	4	55	45	0	613	16
2016-17	0	3	59	40	0	509	23
2017-18	2	5	76	44	0	456	17
2018-19	5	5	74	50	0	394	6
2019-20	6	4	93	51	0	362	18
2020-21	7	3	132	49	1	380	13
2021-22	5	1	125	39	1	399	11
2022-23	1	1	133	42	0	352	10
Average	5	4	96	46	0	493	12

Defiance College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

59 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 11% of total students. The number of online students has increased 268.75% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Defiance College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	920	16	84	820
2015-16	751	6	88	657
2016-17	648	7	151	490
2017-18	614	4	133	477
2018-19	545	9	91	445
2019-20	542	23	113	406
2020-21	607	76	211	320
2021-22	585	56	196	333
2022-23	540	59	165	316
Average	639	28	137	474

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