Enrollment Trends at Spalding

The student population at Spalding University is 1,532 (767 undergraduate and 765 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 835 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Spalding is 50.07% which is decreased by 604 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 231 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 2.47 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

313 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 404.84% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,935 where 1,532 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

50.07% of total students is undergraduate students and 49.93% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 604 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 231 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.47 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Spalding than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,367	1,371	415	956	996	216	780
2014-15	2,311 -56	1,312 -59	406 -9	906 -50	999 3	207 -9	792 12
2015-16	2,202 -109	1,187 -125	363 -43	824 -82	1,015 16	193 -14	822 30
2016-17	2,322 120	1,316 129	384 21	932 108	1,006 -9	201 8	805 -17
2017-18	2,071 -251	1,250 -66	360 -24	890 -42	821 -185	177 -24	644 -161
2018-19	1,758 -313	1,028 -222	328 -32	700 -190	730 -91	143 -34	587 -57
2019-20	1,629 -129	925 -103	304 -24	621 -79	704 -26	123 -20	581 -6
2020-21	1,596 -33	855 -70	247 -57	608 -13	741 37	143 20	598 17
2021-22	1,562 -34	765 -90	242 -5	523 -85	797 56	144 1	653 55
2022-23	1,532 -30	767 2	281 39	486 -37	765 -32	160 16	605 -48
Average	1,935	1,078	333	745	857	171	687

Spalding University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,078 where 767 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 Spalding University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,371	954	274	680	417	141	276
2014-15	1,312	921	277	644	391	129	262
2015-16	1,187	925	283	642	262	80	182
2016-17	1,316	920	254	666	396	130	266
2017-18	1,250	916	255	661	334	105	229
2018-19	1,028	847	262	585	181	66	115
2019-20	925	744	236	508	181	68	113
2020-21	855	707	215	492	148	32	116
2021-22	765	578	184	394	187	58	129
2022-23	767	551	195	356	216	86	130
Average	1,078	1,078	244	563	1,078	90	182

Spalding University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 857 where 765 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 Spalding University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	996	772	170	602	224	46	178
2014-15	999	716	140	576	283	67	216
2015-16	1,015	715	132	583	300	61	239
2016-17	1,006	723	139	584	283	62	221
2017-18	821	507	110	397	314	67	247
2018-19	730	494	106	388	236	37	199
2019-20	704	470	79	391	234	44	190
2020-21	741	496	100	396	245	43	202
2021-22	797	537	89	448	260	55	205
2022-23	765	508	110	398	257	50	207
Average	857	857	118	476	857	53	210

Spalding University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 61.62%. The percentage was 61.39% 10 years ago and Spalding still has a high percentage of white students. 1.24% of enrolled students is Asian and 17.89% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Spalding University 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	3	29	482	56	3	1,453	59
2014-15	3	32	425	66	5	1,448	57
2015-16	6	31	396	46	9	1,381	60
2016-17	3	33	394	58	5	1,386	64
2017-18	4	28	361	76	2	1,317	73
2018-19	3	28	286	69	0	1,185	78
2019-20	4	24	274	75	4	1,091	68
2020-21	5	31	298	69	0	1,079	66
2021-22	2	23	250	89	1	1,075	55
2022-23	1	19	274	90	0	944	42
Average	3	28	344	69	3	1,236	62

Spalding University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

313 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 20% of total students. The number of online students has increased 404.84% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Spalding University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	2,311	62	385	1,864
2015-16	2,202	106	434	1,662
2016-17	2,322	113	537	1,672
2017-18	2,071	168	476	1,427
2018-19	1,758	392	561	805
2019-20	1,629	134	466	1,029
2020-21	1,596	450	797	349
2021-22	1,562	294	589	679
2022-23	1,532	313	544	675
Average	1,887	226	532	1,129

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