Enrollment Trends at Catawba

The student population at Catawba College is 1,172 (1,094 undergraduate and 78 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 165 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Catawba is 93.34% which is decreased by 229 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 64 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 1.10 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

184 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 36.89% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,294 where 1,172 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

93.34% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.66% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 229 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 64 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.10 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Catawba.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,337	1,323	640	683	14	1	13
2013-14	1,310 -27	1,298 -25	618 -22	680 -3	12 -2	0 -1	12 -1
2014-15	1,300 -10	1,293 -5	609 -9	684 4	7 -5	0 0	7 -5
2015-16	1,275 -25	1,270 -23	607 -2	663 -21	5 -2	0 0	5 -2
2016-17	1,306 31	1,297 27	600 -7	697 34	9 4	0 0	9 4
2017-18	1,336 30	1,322 25	617 17	705 8	14 5	1 1	13 4
2018-19	1,294 -42	1,289 -33	601 -16	688 -17	5 -9	1 0	4 -9
2019-20	1,324 30	1,324 35	598 -3	726 38	0 -5	0 -1	0 -4
2020-21	1,371 47	1,340 16	625 27	715 -11	31 31	16 16	15 15
2021-22	1,207 -164	1,142 -198	547 -78	595 -120	65 34	34 18	31 16
2022-23	1,172 -35	1,094 -48	519 -28	575 -20	78 13	38 4	40 9
Average	1,294	1,272	598	674	22	8	14

Catawba College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,272 where 1,094 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 Catawba College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,323	1,237	610	627	86	30	56
2013-14	1,298	1,210	595	615	88	23	65
2014-15	1,293	1,218	577	641	75	32	43
2015-16	1,270	1,203	580	623	67	27	40
2016-17	1,297	1,243	584	659	54	16	38
2017-18	1,322	1,268	602	666	54	15	39
2018-19	1,289	1,229	583	646	60	18	42
2019-20	1,324	1,222	572	650	102	26	76
2020-21	1,340	1,232	601	631	108	24	84
2021-22	1,142	1,044	517	527	98	30	68
2022-23	1,094	1,000	499	501	94	20	74
Average	1,272	1,272	575	617	1,272	24	57

Catawba College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 22 where 78 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 Catawba College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	14	0	0	0	14	1	13
2013-14	12	1	0	1	11	0	11
2014-15	7	0	0	0	7	0	7
2015-16	5	0	0	0	5	0	5
2016-17	9	9	0	9	0	0	0
2017-18	14	5	0	5	9	1	8
2018-19	5	0	0	0	5	1	4
2019-20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020-21	31	29	16	13	2	0	2
2021-22	65	64	34	30	1	0	1
2022-23	78	76	37	39	2	1	1
Average	22	22	8	9	22	0	5

Catawba College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 54.52%. The percentage was 73.07% 10 years ago and Catawba still has a high percentage of white students. 0.60% of enrolled students is Asian and 19.62% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Catawba 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	10	8	252	33	0	977	18
2013-14	13	15	271	39	0	918	19
2014-15	12	15	265	48	0	895	28
2015-16	4	10	235	68	1	883	38
2016-17	5	14	244	92	1	878	43
2017-18	4	10	257	91	1	879	41
2018-19	5	7	271	94	1	809	47
2019-20	7	11	285	125	3	779	49
2020-21	5	14	281	111	2	778	67
2021-22	4	10	231	99	24	662	55
2022-23	2	7	230	112	1	639	50
Average	6	11	257	83	3	827	41

Catawba College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

184 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 16% of total students. The number of online students has increased 36.89% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Catawba College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,300	0	103	1,197
2015-16	1,275	0	161	1,114
2016-17	1,306	0	85	1,221
2017-18	1,336	0	85	1,251
2018-19	1,294	0	153	1,141
2019-20	1,324	0	223	1,101
2020-21	1,339	180	797	362
2021-22	1,207	163	163	881
2022-23	1,172	184	141	847
Average	1,284	59	212	1,013

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