Enrollment Trends at Peirce

The student population at Peirce College is 856 (762 undergraduate and 94 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 940 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Peirce is 89.02% which is decreased by 997 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 57 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 3.30 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

856 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 15.83% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,369 where 856 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

89.02% of total students is undergraduate students and 10.98% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 997 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 57 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.30 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Peirce than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,796	1,759	485	1,274	37	10	27
2014-15	1,833 37	1,771 12	494 9	1,277 3	62 25	12 2	50 23
2015-16	1,708 -125	1,643 -128	461 -33	1,182 -95	65 3	16 4	49 -1
2016-17	1,563 -145	1,491 -152	431 -30	1,060 -122	72 7	21 5	51 2
2017-18	1,478 -85	1,389 -102	393 -38	996 -64	89 17	25 4	64 13
2018-19	1,357 -121	1,271 -118	362 -31	909 -87	86 -3	14 -11	72 8
2019-20	1,178 -179	1,089 -182	325 -37	764 -145	89 3	16 2	73 1
2020-21	1,046 -132	947 -142	253 -72	694 -70	99 10	22 6	77 4
2021-22	875 -171	788 -159	210 -43	578 -116	87 -12	21 -1	66 -11
2022-23	856 -19	762 -26	183 -27	579 1	94 7	16 -5	78 12
Average	1,369	1,291	360	931	78	17	61

Peirce College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,291 where 762 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 Peirce College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,759	358	126	232	1,401	359	1,042
2014-15	1,771	347	127	220	1,424	367	1,057
2015-16	1,643	304	123	181	1,339	338	1,001
2016-17	1,491	318	121	197	1,173	310	863
2017-18	1,389	307	125	182	1,082	268	814
2018-19	1,271	278	102	176	993	260	733
2019-20	1,089	297	113	184	792	212	580
2020-21	947	225	64	161	722	189	533
2021-22	788	182	46	136	606	164	442
2022-23	762	163	38	125	599	145	454
Average	1,291	1,291	99	179	1,291	261	752

Peirce College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 78 where 94 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 Peirce College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	37	0	0	0	37	10	27
2014-15	62	7	0	7	55	12	43
2015-16	65	1	0	1	64	16	48
2016-17	72	5	3	2	67	18	49
2017-18	89	11	7	4	78	18	60
2018-19	86	13	1	12	73	13	60
2019-20	89	1	0	1	88	16	72
2020-21	99	12	2	10	87	20	67
2021-22	87	9	1	8	78	20	58
2022-23	94	9	1	8	85	15	70
Average	78	78	2	5	78	16	55

Peirce College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 18.81% and the percentage of black students is 53.15% at Peirce College. 3.15% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Peirce 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	4	36	1,212	131	0	378	9
2014-15	5	36	1,235	135	4	357	13
2015-16	2	27	1,173	127	3	338	8
2016-17	2	33	1,068	126	3	290	9
2017-18	2	31	952	109	2	262	14
2018-19	5	37	823	93	7	238	19
2019-20	3	36	656	93	2	234	23
2020-21	6	31	571	104	2	199	18
2021-22	4	21	493	98	3	166	11
2022-23	6	27	455	112	3	161	13
Average	4	32	864	113	3	262	14

Peirce College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

856 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 100% of total students. The number of online students has increased 15.83% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Peirce College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,833	739	518	576
2015-16	1,708	607	495	606
2016-17	1,563	809	627	127
2017-18	1,478	710	598	170
2018-19	1,357	714	587	56
2019-20	1,178	641	411	126
2020-21	1,046	1,046	0	0
2021-22	875	875	0	0
2022-23	856	856	0	0
Average	1,322	777	360	185

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