Enrollment Trends at Bluffton

The student population at Bluffton University is 745 (664 undergraduate and 81 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 453 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Bluffton is 89.13% which is decreased by 413 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 40 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.02 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

76 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 590.91% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 913 where 745 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

89.13% of total students is undergraduate students and 10.87% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 413 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 40 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.02 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Bluffton.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,198	1,077	517	560	121	51	70
2013-14	1,146 -52	1,053 -24	531 14	522 -38	93 -28	40 -11	53 -17
2014-15	1,094 -52	997 -56	499 -32	498 -24	97 4	41 1	56 3
2015-16	1,011 -83	910 -87	435 -64	475 -23	101 4	40 -1	61 5
2016-17	952 -59	865 -45	434 -1	431 -44	87 -14	23 -17	64 3
2017-18	815 -137	739 -126	374 -60	365 -66	76 -11	25 2	51 -13
2018-19	770 -45	700 -39	384 10	316 -49	70 -6	26 1	44 -7
2019-20	768 -2	710 10	403 19	307 -9	58 -12	19 -7	39 -5
2020-21	750 -18	691 -19	375 -28	316 9	59 1	24 5	35 -4
2021-22	791 41	728 37	400 25	328 12	63 4	21 -3	42 7
2022-23	745 -46	664 -64	355 -45	309 -19	81 18	13 -8	68 26
Average	913	830	428	402	82	29	53

Bluffton University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 830 where 664 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 Bluffton University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,077	833	426	407	244	91	153
2013-14	1,053	838	445	393	215	86	129
2014-15	997	796	418	378	201	81	120
2015-16	910	746	379	367	164	56	108
2016-17	865	728	377	351	137	57	80
2017-18	739	660	335	325	79	39	40
2018-19	700	605	345	260	95	39	56
2019-20	710	626	361	265	84	42	42
2020-21	691	647	350	297	44	25	19
2021-22	728	700	388	312	28	12	16
2022-23	664	639	341	298	25	14	11
Average	830	830	379	332	830	49	70

Bluffton University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 82 where 81 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 Bluffton University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	121	110	51	59	11	0	11
2013-14	93	82	40	42	11	0	11
2014-15	97	88	39	49	9	2	7
2015-16	101	92	38	54	9	2	7
2016-17	87	76	23	53	11	0	11
2017-18	76	65	24	41	11	1	10
2018-19	70	62	25	37	8	1	7
2019-20	58	52	16	36	6	3	3
2020-21	59	56	24	32	3	0	3
2021-22	63	54	21	33	9	0	9
2022-23	81	78	13	65	3	0	3
Average	82	82	29	46	82	1	7

Bluffton University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 75.03%. The percentage was 86.23% 10 years ago and Bluffton still has a high percentage of white students. 0.40% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.95% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bluffton University 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	2	7	76	34	1	1,033	16
2013-14	2	11	68	36	1	972	12
2014-15	0	7	59	34	0	942	20
2015-16	0	5	56	37	0	857	23
2016-17	0	8	54	36	0	797	32
2017-18	2	5	71	33	0	645	30
2018-19	2	8	71	25	0	583	30
2019-20	4	5	78	25	0	575	27
2020-21	4	3	87	26	0	550	32
2021-22	2	7	108	22	0	583	19
2022-23	1	3	89	21	0	559	17
Average	2	6	74	30	0	736	23

Bluffton University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

76 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 10% of total students. The number of online students has increased 590.91% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Bluffton University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,094	11	46	1,037
2015-16	1,011	13	22	976
2016-17	952	14	60	878
2017-18	815	24	36	755
2018-19	770	30	44	696
2019-20	768	21	40	707
2020-21	750	52	102	596
2021-22	791	55	36	700
2022-23	745	76	39	630
Average	855	33	47	775

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