Enrollment Trends at Wilkes

The student population at Wilkes University is 5,207 (2,000 undergraduate and 3,207 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 542 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Wilkes is 38.41% which is decreased by 388 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 930 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 2.23 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

2,983 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 140.76% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 5,045 where 5,207 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

38.41% of total students is undergraduate students and 61.59% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 388 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 930 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.23 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Wilkes than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	4,665	2,388	1,262	1,126	2,277	708	1,569
2014-15	4,562 -103	2,360 -28	1,242 -20	1,118 -8	2,202 -75	704 -4	1,498 -71
2015-16	5,053 491	2,421 61	1,261 19	1,160 42	2,632 430	703 -1	1,929 431
2016-17	5,552 499	2,561 140	1,339 78	1,222 62	2,991 359	745 42	2,246 317
2017-18	5,545 -7	2,491 -70	1,331 -8	1,160 -62	3,054 63	714 -31	2,340 94
2018-19	5,132 -413	2,455 -36	1,299 -32	1,156 -4	2,677 -377	624 -90	2,053 -287
2019-20	4,680 -452	2,351 -104	1,168 -131	1,183 27	2,329 -348	605 -19	1,724 -329
2020-21	4,781 101	2,243 -108	1,087 -81	1,156 -27	2,538 209	632 27	1,906 182
2021-22	5,276 495	2,232 -11	1,016 -71	1,216 60	3,044 506	685 53	2,359 453
2022-23	5,207 -69	2,000 -232	935 -81	1,065 -151	3,207 163	676 -9	2,531 172
Average	5,045	2,350	1,194	1,156	2,695	680	2,016

Wilkes University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,350 where 2,000 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 Wilkes University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,388	2,181	1,157	1,024	207	105	102
2014-15	2,360	2,217	1,173	1,044	143	69	74
2015-16	2,421	2,254	1,184	1,070	167	77	90
2016-17	2,561	2,303	1,223	1,080	258	116	142
2017-18	2,491	2,233	1,219	1,014	258	112	146
2018-19	2,455	2,212	1,194	1,018	243	105	138
2019-20	2,351	2,110	1,063	1,047	241	105	136
2020-21	2,243	1,996	990	1,006	247	97	150
2021-22	2,232	2,007	925	1,082	225	91	134
2022-23	2,000	1,807	855	952	193	80	113
Average	2,350	2,350	1,098	1,034	2,350	96	123

Wilkes University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 2,695 where 3,207 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 Wilkes University since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	2,277	489	196	293	1,788	512	1,276
2014-15	2,202	485	198	287	1,717	506	1,211
2015-16	2,632	482	204	278	2,150	499	1,651
2016-17	2,991	544	184	360	2,447	561	1,886
2017-18	3,054	496	168	328	2,558	546	2,012
2018-19	2,677	481	147	334	2,196	477	1,719
2019-20	2,329	450	150	300	1,879	455	1,424
2020-21	2,538	467	158	309	2,071	474	1,597
2021-22	3,044	520	177	343	2,524	508	2,016
2022-23	3,207	531	171	360	2,676	505	2,171
Average	2,695	2,695	175	319	2,695	504	1,696

Wilkes University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 70.96%. The percentage was 81.69% 10 years ago and Wilkes still has a high percentage of white students. 3.86% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.72% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Wilkes 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	7	94	126	157	5	3,811	96
2014-15	5	85	115	182	6	3,640	138
2015-16	12	106	198	214	9	3,906	134
2016-17	17	121	288	254	8	4,251	125
2017-18	14	141	301	245	7	4,239	132
2018-19	12	138	282	239	2	3,917	126
2019-20	7	122	251	259	3	3,583	120
2020-21	6	143	368	276	3	3,617	117
2021-22	14	182	562	351	4	3,808	127
2022-23	8	201	558	394	3	3,695	130
Average	10	133	305	257	5	3,847	125

Wilkes University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

2,983 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 57% of total students. The number of online students has increased 140.76% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Wilkes University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	4,562	1,239	605	2,718
2015-16	5,053	1,768	656	2,629
2016-17	5,552	2,308	770	2,474
2017-18	5,545	2,566	760	2,219
2018-19	5,132	2,222	876	2,034
2019-20	4,680	1,916	829	1,935
2020-21	4,781	2,341	1,942	498
2021-22	5,276	2,863	1,387	1,026
2022-23	5,207	2,983	1,187	1,037
Average	5,088	2,245	1,001	1,841

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