Enrollment Trends at Alaska Pacific

The student population at Alaska Pacific University is 593 (479 undergraduate and 114 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 71 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Alaska Pacific is 80.78% which is increased by 191 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 120 and it has been decreasing.

The female to male ratio is 3.24 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

110 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 52.78% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 542 where 593 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

80.78% of total students is undergraduate students and 19.22% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 191 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 120 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.24 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Alaska Pacific than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Alaska Pacific University since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	522	288	98	190	234	77	157
2016-17	541 19	298 10	109 11	189 -1	243 9	93 16	150 -7
2017-18	509 -32	296 -2	103 -6	193 4	213 -30	76 -17	137 -13
2018-19	502 -7	301 5	98 -5	203 10	201 -12	76	125 -12
2019-20	529 27	337 36	98	239 36	192 -9	69 -7	123 -2
2020-21	493 -36	312 -25	71 -27	241 2	181 -11	55 -14	126 3
2021-22	554 61	376 64	82 11	294 53	178 -3	52 -3	126
2022-23	595 41	490 114	99 17	391 97	105 -73	33 -19	72 -54
2023-24	578 -17	437 -53	118 19	319 -72	141 36	29 -4	112 40
2024-25	593 15	479 42	119 1	360 41	114 -27	21 -8	93 -19
Average	542	361	100	262	180	58	122

Alaska Pacific University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 361 where 479 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Alaska Pacific University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	288	204	74	130	84	24	60
2016-17	298	217	83	134	81	26	55
2017-18	296	203	72	131	93	31	62
2018-19	301	216	71	145	85	27	58
2019-20	337	244	67	177	93	31	62
2020-21	312	247	54	193	65	17	48
2021-22	376	294	68	226	82	14	68
2022-23	490	382	61	321	108	38	70
2023-24	437	315	91	224	122	27	95
2024-25	479	346	86	260	133	33	100
Average	361	361	73	194	361	27	68

Alaska Pacific University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 180 where 114 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Alaska Pacific University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	234	74	25	49	160	52	108
2016-17	243	55	17	38	188	76	112
2017-18	213	37	12	25	176	64	112
2018-19	201	42	11	31	159	65	94
2019-20	192	43	12	31	149	57	92
2020-21	181	46	9	37	135	46	89
2021-22	178	50	11	39	128	41	87
2022-23	105	57	14	43	48	19	29
2023-24	141	42	3	39	99	26	73
2024-25	114	34	6	28	80	15	65
Average	180	180	12	36	180	46	86

Alaska Pacific University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 36.26% and the percentage of black students is 4.38% at Alaska Pacific University. 6.91% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 7.93% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 55.75% to 36.26%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.92% to 6.91%. Black student enrollment increased from 3.45% to 4.38%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.11% to 7.93%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7912 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6523 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Alaska Pacific University over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	2015-16	87	10	18	11	1	291	44
2016-17	84	15	18	7	3	287	60
2017-18	98	12	18	24	4	230	61
2018-19	113	9	11	31	2	227	48
2019-20	127	12	13	36	6	217	54
2020-21	118	9	10	41	4	175	61
2021-22	125	20	12	50	6	180	70
2022-23	150	35	24	9	11	204	28
2023-24	124	35	15	48	8	203	65
2024-25	134	41	26	47	7	215	68
Average	116	20	17	30	5	223	56

Alaska Pacific University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

110 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 19% of total students. The number of online students has increased 52.78% since 2015. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Alaska Pacific University from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	522	72	63	387
2016-17	541	58	68	415
2017-18	509	61	84	364
2018-19	502	79	65	358
2019-20	529	67	107	355
2020-21	493	394	95	4
2021-22	554	78	162	314
2022-23	595	18	82	495
2023-24	578	88	150	340
2024-25	593	110	211	272
Average	542	103	109	330

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Enrollment Trends at Alaska Pacific

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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