Enrollment Trends at Whittier

The student population at Whittier College is 1,192 (1,131 undergraduate and 61 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,147 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Whittier is 94.88% which is decreased by 525 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 622 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.29 to 1 which means that female students enrolled slightly more than male students.

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

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,868 where 1,192 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

94.88% of total students is undergraduate students and 5.12% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 525 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 622 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.29 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Whittier than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,339	1,656	731	925	683	311	372
2014-15	2,259 -80	1,626 -30	730 -1	896 -29	633 -50	275 -36	358 -14
2015-16	2,187 -72	1,648 22	724 -6	924 28	539 -94	211 -64	328 -30
2016-17	2,072 -115	1,614 -34	690 -34	924 0	458 -81	182 -29	276 -52
2017-18	1,987 -85	1,681 67	728 38	953 29	306 -152	110 -72	196 -80
2018-19	1,852 -135	1,732 51	721 -7	1,011 58	120 -186	41 -69	79 -117
2019-20	1,841 -11	1,776 44	774 53	1,002 -9	65 -55	24 -17	41 -38
2020-21	1,564 -277	1,490 -286	640 -134	850 -152	74 9	26 2	48 7
2021-22	1,387 -177	1,325 -165	579 -61	746 -104	62 -12	16 -10	46 -2
2022-23	1,192 -195	1,131 -194	502 -77	629 -117	61 -1	19 3	42 -4
Average	1,868	1,568	682	886	300	122	179

Whittier College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,568 where 1,131 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 Whittier College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,656	1,623	714	909	33	17	16
2014-15	1,626	1,593	712	881	33	18	15
2015-16	1,648	1,618	710	908	30	14	16
2016-17	1,614	1,579	676	903	35	14	21
2017-18	1,681	1,640	713	927	41	15	26
2018-19	1,732	1,699	709	990	33	12	21
2019-20	1,776	1,748	762	986	28	12	16
2020-21	1,490	1,455	620	835	35	20	15
2021-22	1,325	1,276	548	728	49	31	18
2022-23	1,131	1,097	488	609	34	14	20
Average	1,568	1,568	665	868	1,568	17	18

Whittier College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 300 where 61 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 Whittier College since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	683	442	209	233	241	102	139
2014-15	633	445	197	248	188	78	110
2015-16	539	348	140	208	191	71	120
2016-17	458	306	135	171	152	47	105
2017-18	306	180	67	113	126	43	83
2018-19	120	80	27	53	40	14	26
2019-20	65	15	4	11	50	20	30
2020-21	74	40	14	26	34	12	22
2021-22	62	33	7	26	29	9	20
2022-23	61	23	6	17	38	13	25
Average	300	300	81	111	300	41	68

Whittier College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 26.17% and the percentage of black students is 4.87% at Whittier College. 6.63% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Whittier 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	13	235	103	896	9	888	89
2014-15	14	237	131	908	5	781	89
2015-16	11	224	117	895	5	761	82
2016-17	7	161	97	913	8	684	113
2017-18	7	136	108	955	9	556	129
2018-19	9	127	87	937	6	481	127
2019-20	7	128	89	942	5	458	131
2020-21	3	105	71	847	4	358	108
2021-22	3	76	56	595	6	286	57
2022-23	0	79	58	529	5	312	76
Average	7	151	92	842	6	557	100

Whittier College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	2,259	0	0	2,259
2015-16	2,187	0	45	2,142
2016-17	2,072	0	0	2,072
2017-18	1,987	0	130	1,857
2018-19	1,852	0	0	1,852
2019-20	1,841	0	160	1,681
2020-21	1,564	0	192	1,372
2021-22	1,387	12	350	1,025
2022-23	1,192	7	299	886
Average	1,816	2	131	1,683

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