Enrollment Trends at Capital

The student population at Capital University is 2,617 (1,938 undergraduate and 679 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 967 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Capital is 74.05% which is decreased by 782 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 185 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.47 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

80 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 12 years is 3,256 where 2,617 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

74.05% of total students is undergraduate students and 25.95% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 782 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 185 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.47 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Capital than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	3,584	2,720	1,162	1,558	864	426	438
2013-14	3,628 44	2,788 68	1,176 14	1,612 54	840 -24	411 -15	429 -9
2014-15	3,494 -134	2,742 -46	1,156 -20	1,586 -26	752 -88	359 -52	393 -36
2015-16	3,465 -29	2,765 23	1,148 -8	1,617 31	700 -52	341 -18	359 -34
2016-17	3,367 -98	2,718 -47	1,071 -77	1,647 30	649 -51	323 -18	326 -33
2017-18	3,384 17	2,699 -19	1,050 -21	1,649 2	685 36	301 -22	384 58
2018-19	3,213 -171	2,494 -205	935 -115	1,559 -90	719 34	304 3	415 31
2019-20	3,226 13	2,504 10	937 2	1,567 8	722 3	310 6	412 -3
2020-21	3,020 -206	2,282 -222	880 -57	1,402 -165	738 16	315 5	423 11
2021-22	2,820 -200	2,090 -192	821 -59	1,269 -133	730 -8	296 -19	434 11
2022-23	2,617 -203	1,938 -152	782 -39	1,156 -113	679 -51	276 -20	403 -31
Average	3,256	2,522	1,011	1,511	734	333	401

Capital University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 2,522 where 1,938 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 Capital University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	2,720	2,448	1,075	1,373	272	87	185
2013-14	2,788	2,481	1,092	1,389	307	84	223
2014-15	2,742	2,454	1,071	1,383	288	85	203
2015-16	2,765	2,514	1,077	1,437	251	71	180
2016-17	2,718	2,511	1,007	1,504	207	64	143
2017-18	2,699	2,493	987	1,506	206	63	143
2018-19	2,494	2,316	880	1,436	178	55	123
2019-20	2,504	2,400	904	1,496	104	33	71
2020-21	2,282	2,152	825	1,327	130	55	75
2021-22	2,090	2,010	782	1,228	80	39	41
2022-23	1,938	1,882	755	1,127	56	27	29
Average	2,522	2,522	950	1,382	2,522	60	129

Capital University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 734 where 679 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 Capital University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	864	527	284	243	337	142	195
2013-14	840	499	260	239	341	151	190
2014-15	752	456	238	218	296	121	175
2015-16	700	450	228	222	250	113	137
2016-17	649	411	224	187	238	99	139
2017-18	685	467	215	252	218	86	132
2018-19	719	483	217	266	236	87	149
2019-20	722	488	220	268	234	90	144
2020-21	738	519	233	286	219	82	137
2021-22	730	514	216	298	216	80	136
2022-23	679	478	193	285	201	83	118
Average	734	734	230	251	734	103	150

Capital University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 72.26%. The percentage was 80.13% 10 years ago and Capital still has a high percentage of white students. 2.60% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.78% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Capital 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	6	51	321	94	3	2,872	113
2013-14	8	57	318	111	2	2,883	117
2014-15	4	50	338	135	2	2,672	134
2015-16	5	55	365	132	0	2,577	150
2016-17	7	52	346	129	2	2,513	144
2017-18	8	62	325	124	6	2,517	157
2018-19	7	65	316	129	4	2,407	148
2019-20	7	65	282	125	2	2,457	179
2020-21	7	75	271	122	2	2,274	176
2021-22	8	73	275	126	2	2,083	170
2022-23	5	68	282	135	0	1,891	159
Average	7	61	313	124	2	2,468	150

Capital University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

80 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 3% 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 Capital University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	3,494	0	0	3,494
2015-16	3,465	0	236	3,229
2016-17	3,367	0	355	3,012
2017-18	3,384	0	398	2,986
2018-19	3,213	13	464	2,736
2019-20	3,226	29	601	2,596
2020-21	3,020	307	374	2,339
2021-22	2,820	99	1,247	1,474
2022-23	2,617	80	1,017	1,520
Average	3,178	59	521	2,598

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