Enrollment Trends at Earlham

The student population at Earlham College is 677 (612 undergraduate and 65 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 482 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Earlham is 90.40% which is decreased by 452 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 30 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.18 to 1 which means that female students enrolled slightly more than male students.

23 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 155.56% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 986 where 677 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

90.40% of total students is undergraduate students and 9.60% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 452 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 30 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.18 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Earlham than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,159	1,064	474	590	95	45	50
2014-15	1,076 -83	993 -71	447 -27	546 -44	83 -12	37 -8	46 -4
2015-16	1,067 -9	988 -5	426 -21	562 16	79 -4	31 -6	48 2
2016-17	1,102 35	1,031 43	456 30	575 13	71 -8	31 0	40 -8
2017-18	1,128 26	1,060 29	473 17	587 12	68 -3	26 -5	42 2
2018-19	1,104 -24	1,050 -10	483 10	567 -20	54 -14	22 -4	32 -10
2019-20	998 -106	948 -102	405 -78	543 -24	50 -4	17 -5	33 1
2020-21	815 -183	736 -212	320 -85	416 -127	79 29	27 10	52 19
2021-22	736 -79	658 -78	299 -21	359 -57	78 -1	33 6	45 -7
2022-23	677 -59	612 -46	285 -14	327 -32	65 -13	26 -7	39 -6
Average	986	914	407	507	72	30	43

Earlham College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 914 where 612 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 Earlham College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,064	1,045	464	581	19	10	9
2014-15	993	981	442	539	12	5	7
2015-16	988	980	423	557	8	3	5
2016-17	1,031	1,025	455	570	6	1	5
2017-18	1,060	1,051	466	585	9	7	2
2018-19	1,050	1,043	478	565	7	5	2
2019-20	948	940	402	538	8	3	5
2020-21	736	733	318	415	3	2	1
2021-22	658	657	299	358	1	0	1
2022-23	612	609	283	326	3	2	1
Average	914	914	403	503	914	4	4

Earlham College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 72 where 65 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 Earlham College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	95	54	26	28	41	19	22
2014-15	83	60	31	29	23	6	17
2015-16	79	48	24	24	31	7	24
2016-17	71	48	26	22	23	5	18
2017-18	68	37	16	21	31	10	21
2018-19	54	31	14	17	23	8	15
2019-20	50	31	13	18	19	4	15
2020-21	79	50	18	32	29	9	20
2021-22	78	40	20	20	38	13	25
2022-23	65	29	13	16	36	13	23
Average	72	72	20	23	72	9	20

Earlham College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.98%. The percentage was 54.53% 10 years ago and Earlham still has a high percentage of white students. 2.36% of enrolled students is Asian and 7.24% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Earlham 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	11	39	141	61	0	632	5
2014-15	10	57	125	62	0	573	2
2015-16	9	51	114	61	2	549	5
2016-17	5	58	116	69	1	564	4
2017-18	8	58	113	78	1	591	3
2018-19	0	39	82	78	0	579	37
2019-20	0	32	68	72	0	509	47
2020-21	2	22	59	80	0	430	43
2021-22	0	17	53	67	0	409	35
2022-23	0	16	49	53	0	379	27
Average	5	39	92	68	0	522	21

Earlham College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

23 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 3% of total students. The number of online students has increased 155.56% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Earlham College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,076	9	21	1,046
2015-16	1,067	18	24	1,025
2016-17	1,102	9	36	1,057
2017-18	1,128	17	15	1,096
2018-19	1,104	8	15	1,081
2019-20	998	16	14	968
2020-21	815	57	0	758
2021-22	736	24	15	697
2022-23	677	23	17	637
Average	967	20	17	929

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