Enrollment Trends at LEC

The student population at Lake Erie College is 906 (738 undergraduate and 168 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 180 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at LEC is 81.46% which is decreased by 184 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 4 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 0.81 to 1 which means that male students enrolled slightly more than female students.

123 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 2,091.67% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,085 where 906 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

81.46% of total students is undergraduate students and 18.54% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 184 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 4 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.81 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more male students enrolled in LEC than female students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,086	922	474	448	164	94	70
2014-15	1,155 69	938 16	466 -8	472 24	217 53	102 8	115 45
2015-16	1,243 88	995 57	487 21	508 36	248 31	121 19	127 12
2016-17	1,201 -42	955 -40	460 -27	495 -13	246 -2	111 -10	135 8
2017-18	1,177 -24	955 0	435 -25	520 25	222 -24	92 -19	130 -5
2018-19	1,160 -17	936 -19	430 -5	506 -14	224 2	85 -7	139 9
2019-20	1,056 -104	833 -103	418 -12	415 -91	223 -1	102 17	121 -18
2020-21	949 -107	759 -74	393 -25	366 -49	190 -33	83 -19	107 -14
2021-22	920 -29	726 -33	393 0	333 -33	194 4	84 1	110 3
2022-23	906 -14	738 12	424 31	314 -19	168 -26	77 -7	91 -19
Average	1,085	876	438	438	210	95	115

Lake Erie College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 876 where 738 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 Lake Erie College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	922	852	455	397	70	19	51
2014-15	938	806	422	384	132	44	88
2015-16	995	804	415	389	191	72	119
2016-17	955	745	390	355	210	70	140
2017-18	955	724	362	362	231	73	158
2018-19	936	686	343	343	250	87	163
2019-20	833	677	360	317	156	58	98
2020-21	759	660	359	301	99	34	65
2021-22	726	612	351	261	114	42	72
2022-23	738	646	382	264	92	42	50
Average	876	876	384	337	876	54	100

Lake Erie College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 210 where 168 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 Lake Erie College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	164	23	12	11	141	82	59
2014-15	217	46	15	31	171	87	84
2015-16	248	85	34	51	163	87	76
2016-17	246	78	33	45	168	78	90
2017-18	222	78	27	51	144	65	79
2018-19	224	69	19	50	155	66	89
2019-20	223	83	27	56	140	75	65
2020-21	190	76	25	51	114	58	56
2021-22	194	92	32	60	102	52	50
2022-23	168	71	25	46	97	52	45
Average	210	210	25	45	210	70	69

Lake Erie College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 65.34%. The percentage was 80.11% 10 years ago and LEC still has a high percentage of white students. 0.99% of enrolled students is Asian and 12.80% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Lake Erie 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	2	6	107	19	0	870	23
2014-15	4	8	164	20	0	863	28
2015-16	4	14	165	34	0	901	42
2016-17	7	14	185	43	0	840	37
2017-18	3	17	185	56	0	803	43
2018-19	3	15	191	63	0	764	51
2019-20	3	13	127	53	1	756	43
2020-21	5	11	115	49	4	635	38
2021-22	4	13	121	57	2	612	28
2022-23	13	9	116	62	2	592	28
Average	5	12	148	46	1	764	36

Lake Erie College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

123 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 14% of total students. The number of online students has increased 2,091.67% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Lake Erie College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,155	0	24	1,131
2015-16	1,243	0	40	1,203
2016-17	1,201	26	40	1,135
2017-18	1,177	59	175	943
2018-19	1,160	92	252	816
2019-20	1,056	111	196	749
2020-21	949	0	0	949
2021-22	920	130	511	279
2022-23	906	123	526	257
Average	1,085	60	196	829

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