Enrollment Trends at Salem

The student population at Salem College is 469 (364 undergraduate and 105 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 718 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Salem is 77.61% which is decreased by 615 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 103 and it has been decreasing.

67 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 67.50% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 862 where 469 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

77.61% of total students is undergraduate students and 22.39% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 615 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 103 over past 10 years.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,187	979	45	934	208	22	186
2014-15	1,118 -69	946 -33	42 -3	904 -30	172 -36	14 -8	158 -28
2015-16	1,087 -31	938 -8	41 -1	897 -7	149 -23	12 -2	137 -21
2016-17	1,087 0	931 -7	27 -14	904 7	156 7	15 3	141 4
2017-18	984 -103	824 -107	20 -7	804 -100	160 4	15 0	145 4
2018-19	842 -142	704 -120	21 1	683 -121	138 -22	10 -5	128 -17
2019-20	709 -133	590 -114	17 -4	573 -110	119 -19	10 0	109 -19
2020-21	636 -73	492 -98	10 -7	482 -91	144 25	14 4	130 21
2021-22	496 -140	364 -128	7 -3	357 -125	132 -12	12 -2	120 -10
2022-23	469 -27	364 0	6 -1	358 1	105 -27	9 -3	96 -24
Average	862	713	24	690	148	13	135

Salem College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 713 where 364 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 Salem College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	979	827	25	802	152	20	132
2014-15	946	790	20	770	156	22	134
2015-16	938	768	20	748	170	21	149
2016-17	931	719	4	715	212	23	189
2017-18	824	673	5	668	151	15	136
2018-19	704	552	6	546	152	15	137
2019-20	590	473	4	469	117	13	104
2020-21	492	378	4	374	114	6	108
2021-22	364	276	1	275	88	6	82
2022-23	364	279	0	279	85	6	79
Average	713	713	9	565	713	15	125

Salem College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 148 where 105 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 Salem College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	208	18	0	18	190	22	168
2014-15	172	12	1	11	160	13	147
2015-16	149	3	0	3	146	12	134
2016-17	156	3	0	3	153	15	138
2017-18	160	2	0	2	158	15	143
2018-19	138	9	3	6	129	7	122
2019-20	119	8	1	7	111	9	102
2020-21	144	5	0	5	139	14	125
2021-22	132	3	1	2	129	11	118
2022-23	105	1	0	1	104	9	95
Average	148	148	1	6	148	13	129

Salem College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 49.68% and the percentage of black students is 16.20% at Salem College. 2.13% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Salem 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	32	280	70	0	684	33
2014-15	4	31	280	115	0	610	29
2015-16	2	32	260	118	0	599	33
2016-17	2	20	239	135	0	604	32
2017-18	6	16	190	126	0	557	36
2018-19	4	18	147	109	0	481	34
2019-20	2	13	123	100	0	405	33
2020-21	1	13	108	90	0	329	32
2021-22	6	8	86	62	0	258	36
2022-23	1	10	76	70	0	233	33
Average	3	19	179	100	0	476	33

Salem College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

67 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 67.50% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Salem College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,118	40	34	1,044
2015-16	1,087	41	12	1,034
2016-17	1,087	62	39	986
2017-18	984	72	47	865
2018-19	842	66	31	745
2019-20	709	66	70	573
2020-21	636	636	0	0
2021-22	496	69	269	158
2022-23	469	67	132	270
Average	825	124	70	631

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