Enrollment Trends at Colby-Sawyer

The student population at Colby-Sawyer College is 943 (867 undergraduate and 76 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 471 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Colby-Sawyer is 91.94% which is decreased by 547 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 76 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 2.64 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

113 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 465.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,085 where 943 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

91.94% of total students is undergraduate students and 8.06% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 547 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 76 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.64 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Colby-Sawyer than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,414	1,414	399	1,015	0	0	0
2013-14	1,409 -5	1,409 -5	419 20	990 -25	0 0	0 0	0 0
2014-15	1,369 -40	1,369 -40	420 1	949 -41	0 0	0 0	0 0
2015-16	1,228 -141	1,228 -141	380 -40	848 -101	0 0	0 0	0 0
2016-17	1,111 -117	1,095 -133	334 -46	761 -87	16 16	0 0	16 16
2017-18	995 -116	982 -113	297 -37	685 -76	13 -3	0 0	13 -3
2018-19	859 -136	859 -123	267 -30	592 -93	0 -13	0 0	0 -13
2019-20	855 -4	851 -8	249 -18	602 10	4 4	0 0	4 4
2020-21	910 55	878 27	232 -17	646 44	32 28	1 1	31 27
2021-22	838 -72	788 -90	223 -9	565 -81	50 18	10 9	40 9
2022-23	943 105	867 79	245 22	622 57	76 26	14 4	62 22
Average	1,085	1,067	315	752	17	2	15

Colby-Sawyer College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,067 where 867 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 Colby-Sawyer College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,414	1,376	385	991	38	14	24
2013-14	1,409	1,386	410	976	23	9	14
2014-15	1,369	1,316	406	910	53	14	39
2015-16	1,228	1,157	361	796	71	19	52
2016-17	1,095	1,013	308	705	82	26	56
2017-18	982	920	283	637	62	14	48
2018-19	859	822	258	564	37	9	28
2019-20	851	803	234	569	48	15	33
2020-21	878	811	210	601	67	22	45
2021-22	788	757	213	544	31	10	21
2022-23	867	766	228	538	101	17	84
Average	1,067	1,067	300	712	1,067	15	40

Colby-Sawyer College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 17 where 76 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 Colby-Sawyer College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2013-14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2014-15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2015-16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	16	1	0	1	15	0	15
2017-18	13	0	0	0	13	0	13
2018-19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019-20	4	0	0	0	4	0	4
2020-21	32	1	0	1	31	1	30
2021-22	50	12	7	5	38	3	35
2022-23	76	5	0	5	71	14	57
Average	17	17	1	1	17	2	14

Colby-Sawyer College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 75.08%. The percentage was 66.90% 10 years ago and Colby-Sawyer still has a high percentage of white students. 2.55% of enrolled students is Asian and 3.08% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Colby-Sawyer 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	20	84	29	4	946	8
2013-14	3	14	75	40	2	884	9
2014-15	3	21	88	41	1	860	7
2015-16	10	16	80	39	1	818	5
2016-17	12	19	68	37	0	763	2
2017-18	14	29	55	23	0	735	0
2018-19	10	24	47	19	0	668	0
2019-20	8	25	39	19	0	670	0
2020-21	6	27	33	17	0	691	11
2021-22	3	24	22	18	0	661	6
2022-23	4	24	29	21	0	708	7
Average	7	22	56	28	1	764	5

Colby-Sawyer College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

113 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 465.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Colby-Sawyer College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,369	20	359	990
2015-16	1,228	41	0	1,187
2016-17	1,111	46	359	706
2017-18	995	38	106	851
2018-19	859	20	113	726
2019-20	855	21	119	715
2020-21	910	128	0	782
2021-22	838	114	0	724
2022-23	943	113	0	830
Average	1,012	60	117	835

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