Enrollment Trends at Friends

The student population at Friends University is 1,724 (1,278 undergraduate and 446 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 454 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Friends is 74.13% which is decreased by 331 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 123 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.39 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

296 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 97.33% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,812 where 1,724 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

74.13% of total students is undergraduate students and 25.87% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 331 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 123 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.39 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Friends than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,178	1,609	713	896	569	200	369
2014-15	1,882 -296	1,344 -265	627 -86	717 -179	538 -31	171 -29	367 -2
2015-16	1,929 47	1,390 46	644 17	746 29	539 1	185 14	354 -13
2016-17	1,676 -253	1,192 -198	554 -90	638 -108	484 -55	177 -8	307 -47
2017-18	1,628 -48	1,146 -46	504 -50	642 4	482 -2	165 -12	317 10
2018-19	1,926 298	1,356 210	576 72	780 138	570 88	188 23	382 65
2019-20	1,818 -108	1,291 -65	581 5	710 -70	527 -43	177 -11	350 -32
2020-21	1,671 -147	1,089 -202	525 -56	564 -146	582 55	187 10	395 45
2021-22	1,692 21	1,190 101	564 39	626 62	502 -80	161 -26	341 -54
2022-23	1,724 32	1,278 88	598 34	680 54	446 -56	124 -37	322 -19
Average	1,812	1,289	589	700	524	174	350

Friends University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,289 where 1,278 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 Friends University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,609	1,045	480	565	564	233	331
2014-15	1,344	1,024	484	540	320	143	177
2015-16	1,390	1,025	491	534	365	153	212
2016-17	1,192	920	434	486	272	120	152
2017-18	1,146	906	416	490	240	88	152
2018-19	1,356	886	415	471	470	161	309
2019-20	1,291	860	408	452	431	173	258
2020-21	1,089	850	409	441	239	116	123
2021-22	1,190	889	447	442	301	117	184
2022-23	1,278	922	466	456	356	132	224
Average	1,289	1,289	445	488	1,289	144	212

Friends University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 524 where 446 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 Friends University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	569	161	50	111	408	150	258
2014-15	538	161	47	114	377	124	253
2015-16	539	184	50	134	355	135	220
2016-17	484	185	48	137	299	129	170
2017-18	482	152	29	123	330	136	194
2018-19	570	145	33	112	425	155	270
2019-20	527	149	40	109	378	137	241
2020-21	582	146	34	112	436	153	283
2021-22	502	167	37	130	335	124	211
2022-23	446	145	30	115	301	94	207
Average	524	524	40	120	524	134	231

Friends University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.16%. The percentage was 70.80% 10 years ago and Friends still has a high percentage of white students. 2.03% of enrolled students is Asian and 9.80% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Friends 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	39	65	225	81	6	1,542	124
2014-15	25	51	204	68	7	1,303	118
2015-16	29	46	211	76	6	1,255	126
2016-17	31	32	211	88	3	1,071	98
2017-18	21	39	148	144	5	990	35
2018-19	26	40	168	147	5	1,201	37
2019-20	19	75	144	156	2	1,097	74
2020-21	35	55	184	219	9	1,005	0
2021-22	42	65	198	88	5	1,005	173
2022-23	11	35	169	269	4	951	115
Average	28	50	186	134	5	1,142	90

Friends University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

296 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 17% of total students. The number of online students has increased 97.33% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Friends University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,882	150	14	1,718
2015-16	1,929	411	612	906
2016-17	1,676	350	314	1,012
2017-18	1,628	296	378	954
2018-19	1,926	374	377	1,175
2019-20	1,818	335	480	1,003
2020-21	1,671	275	593	803
2021-22	1,692	251	569	872
2022-23	1,724	296	615	813
Average	1,772	304	439	1,028

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