Enrollment Trends at Gwynedd Mercy

The student population at Gwynedd Mercy University is 2,091 (1,412 undergraduate and 679 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 280 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Gwynedd Mercy is 67.53% which is decreased by 650 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 370 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 2.66 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

687 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 17,075.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,628 where 2,091 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

67.53% of total students is undergraduate students and 32.47% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 650 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 370 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.66 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Gwynedd Mercy than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,371	2,062	515	1,547	309	65	244
2014-15	2,459 88	1,983 -79	494 -21	1,489 -58	476 167	97 32	379 135
2015-16	2,582 123	2,000 17	487 -7	1,513 24	582 106	132 35	450 71
2016-17	2,667 85	2,035 35	493 6	1,542 29	632 50	152 20	480 30
2017-18	2,808 141	2,081 46	464 -29	1,617 75	727 95	187 35	540 60
2018-19	3,056 248	2,250 169	635 171	1,615 -2	806 79	182 -5	624 84
2019-20	2,990 -66	2,157 -93	597 -38	1,560 -55	833 27	188 6	645 21
2020-21	2,737 -253	1,990 -167	527 -70	1,463 -97	747 -86	173 -15	574 -71
2021-22	2,521 -216	1,792 -198	505 -22	1,287 -176	729 -18	146 -27	583 9
2022-23	2,091 -430	1,412 -380	416 -89	996 -291	679 -50	156 10	523 -60
Average	2,628	1,976	513	1,463	652	148	504

Gwynedd Mercy University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,976 where 1,412 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 Gwynedd Mercy University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,062	1,851	465	1,386	211	50	161
2014-15	1,983	1,808	455	1,353	175	39	136
2015-16	2,000	1,826	454	1,372	174	33	141
2016-17	2,035	1,886	460	1,426	149	33	116
2017-18	2,081	1,934	432	1,502	147	32	115
2018-19	2,250	1,898	451	1,447	352	184	168
2019-20	2,157	1,699	385	1,314	458	212	246
2020-21	1,990	1,553	350	1,203	437	177	260
2021-22	1,792	1,321	302	1,019	471	203	268
2022-23	1,412	1,115	277	838	297	139	158
Average	1,976	1,976	403	1,286	1,976	110	177

Gwynedd Mercy University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 652 where 679 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 Gwynedd Mercy University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	309	147	35	112	162	30	132
2014-15	476	405	88	317	71	9	62
2015-16	582	503	121	382	79	11	68
2016-17	632	562	141	421	70	11	59
2017-18	727	670	178	492	57	9	48
2018-19	806	756	174	582	50	8	42
2019-20	833	742	169	573	91	19	72
2020-21	747	685	161	524	62	12	50
2021-22	729	673	142	531	56	4	52
2022-23	679	651	154	497	28	2	26
Average	652	652	136	443	652	12	61

Gwynedd Mercy University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 58.87%. The percentage was 62.88% 10 years ago and Gwynedd Mercy still has a high percentage of white students. 4.64% of enrolled students is Asian and 16.21% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Gwynedd Mercy 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	8	114	553	94	0	1,491	0
2014-15	10	101	584	108	0	1,485	0
2015-16	7	119	577	109	0	1,534	0
2016-17	4	122	509	102	0	1,468	0
2017-18	7	148	601	143	1	1,763	27
2018-19	15	155	539	133	3	1,702	18
2019-20	15	159	558	140	5	1,973	29
2020-21	10	101	434	92	6	1,580	43
2021-22	8	112	379	116	5	1,447	43
2022-23	4	97	339	126	1	1,231	44
Average	9	123	507	116	2	1,567	20

Gwynedd Mercy University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

687 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 33% of total students. The number of online students has increased 17,075.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Gwynedd Mercy University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	2,459	4	235	2,220
2015-16	2,582	0	170	2,412
2016-17	2,667	711	363	1,593
2017-18	2,808	801	442	1,565
2018-19	3,056	887	490	1,679
2019-20	2,990	902	447	1,641
2020-21	2,737	1,658	802	277
2021-22	2,521	639	469	1,413
2022-23	2,091	687	652	752
Average	2,657	699	452	1,506

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