Enrollment Trends at Dakota Wesleyan

The student population at Dakota Wesleyan University is 887 (723 undergraduate and 164 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 52 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Dakota Wesleyan is 81.51% which is decreased by 35 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 87 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 1.15 to 1 which means that female students enrolled slightly more than male students.

94 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -33.33% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 921 where 887 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

81.51% of total students is undergraduate students and 18.49% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 35 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 87 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.15 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Dakota Wesleyan than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	835	758	346	412	77	40	37
2013-14	879 44	810 52	366 20	444 32	69 -8	32 -8	37 0
2014-15	870 -9	813 3	344 -22	469 25	57 -12	32 0	25 -12
2015-16	991 121	905 92	388 44	517 48	86 29	30 -2	56 31
2016-17	996 5	879 -26	372 -16	507 -10	117 31	37 7	80 24
2017-18	908 -88	792 -87	336 -36	456 -51	116 -1	45 8	71 -9
2018-19	1,024 116	884 92	377 41	507 51	140 24	51 6	89 18
2019-20	880 -144	747 -137	319 -58	428 -79	133 -7	50 -1	83 -6
2020-21	933 53	781 34	336 17	445 17	152 19	63 13	89 6
2021-22	926 -7	770 -11	330 -6	440 -5	156 4	55 -8	101 12
2022-23	887 -39	723 -47	339 9	384 -56	164 8	73 18	91 -10
Average	921	806	350	455	115	46	69

Dakota Wesleyan University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 806 where 723 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 Dakota Wesleyan University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	758	688	321	367	70	25	45
2013-14	810	699	336	363	111	30	81
2014-15	813	675	313	362	138	31	107
2015-16	905	696	338	358	209	50	159
2016-17	879	669	328	341	210	44	166
2017-18	792	668	318	350	124	18	106
2018-19	884	689	329	360	195	48	147
2019-20	747	630	302	328	117	17	100
2020-21	781	628	307	321	153	29	124
2021-22	770	619	301	318	151	29	122
2022-23	723	580	303	277	143	36	107
Average	806	806	318	340	806	32	115

Dakota Wesleyan University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 115 where 164 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 Dakota Wesleyan University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	77	9	7	2	68	33	35
2013-14	69	15	7	8	54	25	29
2014-15	57	22	12	10	35	20	15
2015-16	86	23	12	11	63	18	45
2016-17	117	29	19	10	88	18	70
2017-18	116	36	25	11	80	20	60
2018-19	140	33	21	12	107	30	77
2019-20	133	41	27	14	92	23	69
2020-21	152	67	38	29	85	25	60
2021-22	156	65	32	33	91	23	68
2022-23	164	78	38	40	86	35	51
Average	115	115	22	16	115	25	53

Dakota Wesleyan University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 81.74%. The percentage was 88.38% 10 years ago and Dakota Wesleyan still has a high percentage of white students. 1.13% of enrolled students is Asian and 1.35% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Dakota Wesleyan 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	9	6	24	22	0	738	22
2013-14	11	2	16	33	0	787	15
2014-15	9	2	15	23	0	786	18
2015-16	12	4	13	26	0	887	24
2016-17	6	5	11	27	0	904	30
2017-18	10	7	16	22	0	815	24
2018-19	20	10	24	61	3	845	26
2019-20	14	7	16	58	2	732	22
2020-21	17	7	20	60	1	790	25
2021-22	16	8	6	48	2	780	33
2022-23	15	10	12	58	1	725	38
Average	13	6	16	40	1	799	25

Dakota Wesleyan University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

94 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 11% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -33.33% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Dakota Wesleyan University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	870	141	152	577
2015-16	991	215	135	641
2016-17	996	201	157	638
2017-18	908	164	155	589
2018-19	1,024	119	33	872
2019-20	880	69	66	745
2020-21	933	34	94	805
2021-22	926	5	71	850
2022-23	887	94	215	578
Average	935	116	120	699

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