Enrollment Trends at Union

The student population at Union College is 970 (724 undergraduate and 246 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 194 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Union is 74.64% which is decreased by 94 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 100 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 0.76 to 1 which means that male students enrolled more than female students.

179 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 39.84% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,155 where 970 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

74.64% of total students is undergraduate students and 25.36% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 94 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 100 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.76 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Union than female students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,164	818	415	403	346	131	215
2014-15	1,139 -25	869 51	450 35	419 16	270 -76	102 -29	168 -47
2015-16	1,088 -51	868 -1	442 -8	426 7	220 -50	74 -28	146 -22
2016-17	1,203 115	976 108	494 52	482 56	227 7	77 3	150 4
2017-18	1,309 106	1,094 118	533 39	561 79	215 -12	72 -5	143 -7
2018-19	1,333 24	1,119 25	534 1	585 24	214 -1	86 14	128 -15
2019-20	1,140 -193	946 -173	452 -82	494 -91	194 -20	75 -11	119 -9
2020-21	1,179 39	945 -1	491 39	454 -40	234 40	91 16	143 24
2021-22	1,024 -155	789 -156	418 -73	371 -83	235 1	106 15	129 -14
2022-23	970 -54	724 -65	435 17	289 -82	246 11	115 9	131 2
Average	1,155	915	466	448	240	93	147

Union College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 915 where 724 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 Union College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	818	729	385	344	89	30	59
2014-15	869	782	423	359	87	27	60
2015-16	868	746	401	345	122	41	81
2016-17	976	853	455	398	123	39	84
2017-18	1,094	918	472	446	176	61	115
2018-19	1,119	916	462	454	203	72	131
2019-20	946	857	430	427	89	22	67
2020-21	945	868	468	400	77	23	54
2021-22	789	741	403	338	48	15	33
2022-23	724	685	415	270	39	20	19
Average	915	915	431	378	915	35	70

Union College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 240 where 246 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 Union College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	346	129	42	87	217	89	128
2014-15	270	95	36	59	175	66	109
2015-16	220	92	25	67	128	49	79
2016-17	227	96	30	66	131	47	84
2017-18	215	83	23	60	132	49	83
2018-19	214	100	39	61	114	47	67
2019-20	194	98	34	64	96	41	55
2020-21	234	123	45	78	111	46	65
2021-22	235	97	44	53	138	62	76
2022-23	246	107	48	59	139	67	72
Average	240	240	37	65	240	56	82

Union College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 59.59%. The percentage was 83.08% 10 years ago and Union still has a high percentage of white students. 0.93% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.75% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Union 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	3	2	81	20	0	967	24
2014-15	6	7	93	19	2	913	24
2015-16	2	4	98	19	3	840	39
2016-17	5	4	138	33	1	901	40
2017-18	6	5	144	34	2	980	47
2018-19	6	6	150	26	3	987	40
2019-20	6	5	139	24	2	817	36
2020-21	6	5	157	28	2	788	56
2021-22	4	8	121	23	3	707	30
2022-23	4	9	114	43	8	578	34
Average	5	6	124	27	3	848	37

Union College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

179 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 18% of total students. The number of online students has increased 39.84% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Union College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,139	128	219	792
2015-16	1,088	145	240	703
2016-17	1,203	273	359	571
2017-18	1,309	295	430	584
2018-19	1,333	332	485	516
2019-20	1,140	286	526	328
2020-21	1,179	310	487	382
2021-22	1,024	272	469	283
2022-23	970	179	493	298
Average	1,154	247	412	495

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