Enrollment Trends at Centenary

The student population at Centenary University is 1,498 (1,026 undergraduate and 472 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,078 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Centenary is 68.49% which is decreased by 865 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 213 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 2.04 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

185 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 83.17% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,994 where 1,498 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

68.49% of total students is undergraduate students and 31.51% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 865 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 213 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.04 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Centenary than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	2,576	1,891	752	1,139	685	249	436
2013-14	2,400 -176	1,708 -183	681 -71	1,027 -112	692 7	202 -47	490 54
2014-15	2,318 -82	1,612 -96	593 -88	1,019 -8	706 14	201 -1	505 15
2015-16	2,284 -34	1,548 -64	605 12	943 -76	736 30	233 32	503 -2
2016-17	2,203 -81	1,518 -30	574 -31	944 1	685 -51	203 -30	482 -21
2017-18	1,990 -213	1,369 -149	507 -67	862 -82	621 -64	186 -17	435 -47
2018-19	1,802 -188	1,266 -103	456 -51	810 -52	536 -85	150 -36	386 -49
2019-20	1,681 -121	1,193 -73	408 -48	785 -25	488 -48	143 -7	345 -41
2020-21	1,629 -52	1,190 -3	435 27	755 -30	439 -49	117 -26	322 -23
2021-22	1,551 -78	1,128 -62	410 -25	718 -37	423 -16	104 -13	319 -3
2022-23	1,498 -53	1,026 -102	370 -40	656 -62	472 49	122 18	350 31
Average	1,994	1,404	526	878	589	174	416

Centenary University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,404 where 1,026 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 Centenary University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,891	1,781	706	1,075	110	46	64
2013-14	1,708	1,610	645	965	98	36	62
2014-15	1,612	1,524	559	965	88	34	54
2015-16	1,548	1,468	571	897	80	34	46
2016-17	1,518	1,237	453	784	281	121	160
2017-18	1,369	1,125	408	717	244	99	145
2018-19	1,266	1,058	376	682	208	80	128
2019-20	1,193	1,038	342	696	155	66	89
2020-21	1,190	1,032	376	656	158	59	99
2021-22	1,128	1,028	367	661	100	43	57
2022-23	1,026	961	348	613	65	22	43
Average	1,404	1,404	468	792	1,404	58	86

Centenary University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 589 where 472 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 Centenary University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	685	342	159	183	343	90	253
2013-14	692	352	125	227	340	77	263
2014-15	706	361	131	230	345	70	275
2015-16	736	349	140	209	387	93	294
2016-17	685	120	44	76	565	159	406
2017-18	621	55	20	35	566	166	400
2018-19	536	60	25	35	476	125	351
2019-20	488	44	11	33	444	132	312
2020-21	439	41	12	29	398	105	293
2021-22	423	24	1	23	399	103	296
2022-23	472	30	0	30	442	122	320
Average	589	589	61	101	589	113	315

Centenary University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 63.08%. The percentage was 50.93% 10 years ago and Centenary still has a high percentage of white students. 3.60% of enrolled students is Asian and 6.48% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Centenary 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	0	41	230	179	0	1,312	13
2013-14	5	31	201	183	0	1,172	14
2014-15	4	23	188	123	0	1,043	6
2015-16	4	19	182	183	0	1,012	0
2016-17	3	25	170	197	0	993	0
2017-18	1	34	165	112	0	902	19
2018-19	1	25	173	179	0	900	46
2019-20	1	20	139	214	0	990	59
2020-21	1	24	120	231	0	1,021	35
2021-22	2	32	110	230	0	1,004	0
2022-23	2	54	97	231	0	945	66
Average	2	30	161	187	0	1,027	23

Centenary University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

185 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 83.17% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Centenary University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	2,318	101	170	2,047
2015-16	2,284	36	654	1,594
2016-17	2,203	205	274	1,724
2017-18	1,990	227	257	1,506
2018-19	1,802	201	129	1,472
2019-20	1,681	234	381	1,066
2020-21	1,629	412	1,167	50
2021-22	1,551	123	719	709
2022-23	1,498	185	494	819
Average	1,884	192	472	1,221

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