Enrollment Trends at MCLA

The student population at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is 938 (838 undergraduate and 100 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 778 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at MCLA is 89.34% which is decreased by 700 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 78 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.41 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

78 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 1,200.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,445 where 938 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

89.34% of total students is undergraduate students and 10.66% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 700 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 78 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.41 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in MCLA than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts since 2013.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,716	1,538	612	926	178	72	106
2014-15	1,765 49	1,562 24	586 -26	976 50	203 25	74 2	129 23
2015-16	1,641 -124	1,457 -105	538 -48	919 -57	184 -19	63 -11	121 -8
2016-17	1,644 3	1,444 -13	541 3	903 -16	200 16	73 10	127 6
2017-18	1,588 -56	1,407 -37	538 -3	869 -34	181 -19	71 -2	110 -17
2018-19	1,452 -136	1,277 -130	485 -53	792 -77	175 -6	52 -19	123 13
2019-20	1,507 55	1,345 68	513 28	832 40	162 -13	45 -7	117 -6
2020-21	1,202 -305	1,076 -269	405 -108	671 -161	126 -36	40 -5	86 -31
2021-22	994 -208	870 -206	341 -64	529 -142	124 -2	41 1	83 -3
2022-23	938 -56	838 -32	356 15	482 -47	100 -24	34 -7	66 -17
Average	1,445	1,281	492	790	163	57	107

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,281 where 838 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 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,538	1,353	546	807	185	66	119
2014-15	1,562	1,378	528	850	184	58	126
2015-16	1,457	1,280	484	796	177	54	123
2016-17	1,444	1,256	489	767	188	52	136
2017-18	1,407	1,201	466	735	206	72	134
2018-19	1,277	1,109	430	679	168	55	113
2019-20	1,345	1,145	449	696	200	64	136
2020-21	1,076	931	360	571	145	45	100
2021-22	870	759	309	450	111	32	79
2022-23	838	682	305	377	156	51	105
Average	1,281	1,281	437	673	1,281	55	117

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 163 where 100 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 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	178	21	5	16	157	67	90
2014-15	203	13	3	10	190	71	119
2015-16	184	14	2	12	170	61	109
2016-17	200	14	4	10	186	69	117
2017-18	181	18	7	11	163	64	99
2018-19	175	12	3	9	163	49	114
2019-20	162	14	4	10	148	41	107
2020-21	126	49	17	32	77	23	54
2021-22	124	64	19	45	60	22	38
2022-23	100	53	18	35	47	16	31
Average	163	163	8	19	163	48	88

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 68.44%. The percentage was 75.35% 10 years ago and MCLA still has a high percentage of white students. 2.56% of enrolled students is Asian and 9.17% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 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	23	151	101	1	1,293	40
2014-15	7	29	148	116	0	1,336	47
2015-16	8	32	140	115	0	1,208	44
2016-17	8	34	139	106	0	1,223	36
2017-18	5	32	122	126	2	1,186	44
2018-19	4	32	112	133	1	1,058	40
2019-20	2	27	141	140	1	1,076	41
2020-21	1	13	91	124	2	864	29
2021-22	4	13	78	103	2	708	39
2022-23	3	24	86	95	2	642	37
Average	4	26	121	116	1	1,059	40

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

78 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 8% of total students. The number of online students has increased 1,200.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,765	6	203	1,556
2015-16	1,641	3	133	1,505
2016-17	1,644	2	114	1,528
2017-18	1,588	123	360	1,105
2018-19	1,452	100	244	1,108
2019-20	1,507	103	246	1,158
2020-21	1,202	80	877	245
2021-22	994	40	270	684
2022-23	938	78	205	655
Average	1,415	59	295	1,060

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