Enrollment Trends at Bennington

The student population at Bennington College is 880 (777 undergraduate and 103 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 54 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Bennington is 88.30% which is increased by 89 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 35 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 2.18 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

107 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 28.92% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 816 where 880 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

88.30% of total students is undergraduate students and 11.70% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 89 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 35 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.18 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Bennington than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Bennington College since 2012.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	826	688	245	443	138	27	111
2013-14	738 -88	619 -69	218 -27	401 -42	119 -19	22 -5	97 -14
2014-15	755 17	660 41	222 4	438 37	95 -24	25 3	70 -27
2015-16	801 46	704 44	249 27	455 17	97 2	33 8	64 -6
2016-17	805 4	711 7	253 4	458 3	94 -3	35 2	59 -5
2017-18	851 46	775 64	274 21	501 43	76 -18	24 -11	52 -7
2018-19	811 -40	735 -40	263 -11	472 -29	76 0	22 -2	54 2
2019-20	826 15	729 -6	253 -10	476 4	97 21	25 3	72 18
2020-21	799 -27	697 -32	238 -15	459 -17	102 5	20 -5	82 10
2021-22	884 85	771 74	274 36	497 38	113 11	23 3	90 8
2022-23	880 -4	777 6	258 -16	519 22	103 -10	19 -4	84 -6
Average	816	715	250	465	101	25	76

Bennington College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 715 where 777 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 Bennington College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	688	684	244	440	4	1	3
2013-14	619	609	215	394	10	3	7
2014-15	660	629	209	420	31	13	18
2015-16	704	680	235	445	24	14	10
2016-17	711	682	226	456	29	27	2
2017-18	775	724	240	484	51	34	17
2018-19	735	704	235	469	31	28	3
2019-20	729	686	226	460	43	27	16
2020-21	697	606	197	409	91	41	50
2021-22	771	699	231	468	72	43	29
2022-23	777	712	218	494	65	40	25
Average	715	715	225	449	715	25	16

Bennington College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 101 where 103 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 Bennington College since 2012.

Year	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	138	125	26	99	13	1	12
2013-14	119	111	22	89	8	0	8
2014-15	95	93	25	68	2	0	2
2015-16	97	96	33	63	1	0	1
2016-17	94	94	35	59	0	0	0
2017-18	76	76	24	52	0	0	0
2018-19	76	76	22	54	0	0	0
2019-20	97	97	25	72	0	0	0
2020-21	102	102	20	82	0	0	0
2021-22	113	113	23	90	0	0	0
2022-23	103	103	19	84	0	0	0
Average	101	101	25	74	101	0	2

Bennington College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 63.30%. The percentage was 76.51% 10 years ago and Bennington still has a high percentage of white students. 1.59% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.84% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bennington College over the past 12 years (2012-2023).

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	2012-13	3	23	19	36	0	632	18
2013-14	13	25	13	32	1	550	14
2014-15	13	25	10	38	1	517	23
2015-16	10	25	13	46	1	528	35
2016-17	9	20	21	69	0	492	36
2017-18	3	19	32	78	1	491	34
2018-19	1	14	31	75	1	490	26
2019-20	2	12	27	80	1	493	28
2020-21	1	13	26	85	1	487	25
2021-22	4	21	26	93	0	534	35
2022-23	5	14	25	84	0	557	37
Average	6	19	22	65	1	525	28

Bennington College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

107 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 12% of total students. The number of online students has increased 28.92% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Bennington College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	755	83	0	672
2015-16	801	85	0	716
2016-17	805	79	0	726
2017-18	851	0	73	778
2018-19	811	0	72	739
2019-20	826	0	89	737
2020-21	799	194	556	49
2021-22	884	151	20	713
2022-23	880	107	173	600
Average	824	78	109	637

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