Enrollment Trends at EMU

The student population at Eastern Mennonite University is 1,334 (892 undergraduate and 442 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 306 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at EMU is 66.87% which is decreased by 292 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 14 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.94 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

323 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 404.69% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,526 where 1,334 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

66.87% of total students is undergraduate students and 33.13% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 292 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 14 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.94 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in EMU than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,640	1,184	415	769	456	155	301
2014-15	1,695 55	1,227 43	421 6	806 37	468 12	158 3	310 9
2015-16	1,773 78	1,221 -6	432 11	789 -17	552 84	177 19	375 65
2016-17	1,745 -28	1,259 38	435 3	824 35	486 -66	155 -22	331 -44
2017-18	1,530 -215	1,098 -161	407 -28	691 -133	432 -54	144 -11	288 -43
2018-19	1,444 -86	1,040 -58	378 -29	662 -29	404 -28	119 -25	285 -3
2019-20	1,358 -86	978 -62	375 -3	603 -59	380 -24	107 -12	273 -12
2020-21	1,394 36	896 -82	354 -21	542 -61	498 118	110 3	388 115
2021-22	1,342 -52	958 62	388 34	570 28	384 -114	80 -30	304 -84
2022-23	1,334 -8	892 -66	373 -15	519 -51	442 58	80 0	362 58
Average	1,526	1,075	398	678	450	129	322

Eastern Mennonite University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,075 where 892 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 Eastern Mennonite University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,184	1,122	384	738	62	31	31
2014-15	1,227	1,124	387	737	103	34	69
2015-16	1,221	1,087	388	699	134	44	90
2016-17	1,259	1,081	391	690	178	44	134
2017-18	1,098	942	365	577	156	42	114
2018-19	1,040	849	343	506	191	35	156
2019-20	978	828	326	502	150	49	101
2020-21	896	812	324	488	84	30	54
2021-22	958	824	338	486	134	50	84
2022-23	892	783	318	465	109	55	54
Average	1,075	1,075	356	589	1,075	41	89

Eastern Mennonite University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 450 where 442 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 Eastern Mennonite University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	456	130	60	70	326	95	231
2014-15	468	143	78	65	325	80	245
2015-16	552	136	68	68	416	109	307
2016-17	486	129	58	71	357	97	260
2017-18	432	125	48	77	307	96	211
2018-19	404	126	47	79	278	72	206
2019-20	380	115	40	75	265	67	198
2020-21	498	103	33	70	395	77	318
2021-22	384	83	25	58	301	55	246
2022-23	442	93	29	64	349	51	298
Average	450	450	49	70	450	80	252

Eastern Mennonite University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 67.69%. The percentage was 74.88% 10 years ago and EMU still has a high percentage of white students. 2.10% of enrolled students is Asian and 9.00% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Eastern Mennonite 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	0	38	90	98	0	1,228	20
2014-15	3	43	125	101	2	1,278	22
2015-16	3	48	149	109	0	1,309	35
2016-17	4	35	130	112	1	1,277	39
2017-18	5	33	119	92	1	1,078	42
2018-19	3	37	117	91	2	1,011	50
2019-20	2	31	110	92	3	947	59
2020-21	2	31	100	91	5	1,002	61
2021-22	0	31	125	86	2	934	55
2022-23	2	28	120	99	1	903	52
Average	2	36	119	97	2	1,097	44

Eastern Mennonite University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

323 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 24% of total students. The number of online students has increased 404.69% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Eastern Mennonite University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,695	64	170	1,461
2015-16	1,773	243	55	1,475
2016-17	1,745	288	60	1,397
2017-18	1,530	248	112	1,170
2018-19	1,444	246	130	1,068
2019-20	1,358	208	115	1,035
2020-21	1,394	420	600	374
2021-22	1,342	306	151	885
2022-23	1,334	323	68	943
Average	1,513	261	162	1,090

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