Enrollment Trends at Meredith

The student population at Meredith College is 1,587 (1,322 undergraduate and 265 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 285 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Meredith is 83.30% which is decreased by 249 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 36 and it has been decreasing.

17 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -100.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,848 where 1,587 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

83.30% of total students is undergraduate students and 16.70% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 249 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 36 over past 10 years.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,872	1,571	2	1,569	301	37	264
2014-15	1,886 14	1,645 74	1 -1	1,644 75	241 -60	29 -8	212 -52
2015-16	1,949 63	1,679 34	2 1	1,677 33	270 29	29 0	241 29
2016-17	1,981 32	1,685 6	3 1	1,682 5	296 26	36 7	260 19
2017-18	1,980 -1	1,682 -3	2 -1	1,680 -2	298 2	36 0	262 2
2018-19	1,905 -75	1,603 -79	5 3	1,598 -82	302 4	38 2	264 2
2019-20	1,810 -95	1,528 -75	3 -2	1,525 -73	282 -20	30 -8	252 -12
2020-21	1,802 -8	1,521 -7	1 -2	1,520 -5	281 -1	28 -2	253 1
2021-22	1,711 -91	1,427 -94	2 1	1,425 -95	284 3	32 4	252 -1
2022-23	1,587 -124	1,322 -105	4 2	1,318 -107	265 -19	26 -6	239 -13
Average	1,848	1,566	3	1,564	282	32	250

Meredith College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,566 where 1,322 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 Meredith College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,571	1,490	0	1,490	81	2	79
2014-15	1,645	1,571	0	1,571	74	1	73
2015-16	1,679	1,616	0	1,616	63	2	61
2016-17	1,685	1,616	0	1,616	69	3	66
2017-18	1,682	1,600	0	1,600	82	2	80
2018-19	1,603	1,531	0	1,531	72	5	67
2019-20	1,528	1,464	0	1,464	64	3	61
2020-21	1,521	1,468	0	1,468	53	1	52
2021-22	1,427	1,373	0	1,373	54	2	52
2022-23	1,322	1,258	0	1,258	64	4	60
Average	1,566	1,566	0	1,499	1,566	3	65

Meredith College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 282 where 265 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 Meredith College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	301	112	12	100	189	25	164
2014-15	241	131	18	113	110	11	99
2015-16	270	131	11	120	139	18	121
2016-17	296	146	19	127	150	17	133
2017-18	298	115	17	98	183	19	164
2018-19	302	135	16	119	167	22	145
2019-20	282	121	14	107	161	16	145
2020-21	281	124	8	116	157	20	137
2021-22	284	128	16	112	156	16	140
2022-23	265	103	10	93	162	16	146
Average	282	282	14	111	282	18	139

Meredith College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 64.08%. The percentage was 71.53% 10 years ago and Meredith still has a high percentage of white students. 4.73% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.27% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Meredith 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	10	53	217	58	2	1,339	49
2014-15	11	64	197	62	2	1,354	59
2015-16	18	60	213	59	1	1,355	67
2016-17	14	59	178	108	3	1,378	63
2017-18	14	65	183	156	2	1,391	63
2018-19	12	67	185	155	2	1,295	54
2019-20	7	74	175	165	2	1,202	59
2020-21	9	73	171	182	3	1,168	53
2021-22	9	77	170	190	2	1,093	52
2022-23	11	75	163	190	3	1,017	30
Average	12	67	185	133	2	1,259	55

Meredith College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

17 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 1% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -100.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Meredith College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,886	0	33	1,853
2015-16	1,949	0	23	1,926
2016-17	1,981	19	1	1,961
2017-18	1,980	0	23	1,957
2018-19	1,905	2	44	1,859
2019-20	1,810	3	0	1,807
2020-21	1,802	6	0	1,796
2021-22	1,711	14	0	1,697
2022-23	1,587	17	0	1,570
Average	1,846	7	14	1,825

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