Enrollment Trends at Defiance

The average student population over the last 11 years is 591 where 568 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

93.13% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.87% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 152 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 31 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.57 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Defiance than female students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Defiance College since 2015.

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 548 where 529 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Defiance College since 2015.

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 43 where 39 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Defiance College since 2015.

The percentage of white students is 52.46%. The percentage was 81.62% 10 years ago and Defiance still has a high percentage of white students. 0.35% of enrolled students is Asian and 35.21% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 6.51% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 81.62% to 52.46%. Asian enrollment declined from 0.53% to 0.35%. Black student enrollment increased from 7.32% to 35.21%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.99% to 6.51%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5962 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.3243 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Defiance College over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

43 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 8% of total students. The number of online students has increased 616.67% since 2015. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Defiance College from 2015 to 2025.