Enrollment Trends at Eastern Nazarene

The student population at Eastern Nazarene College is 60 (23 undergraduate and 37 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 945 (94.03%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Eastern Nazarene is 38.33% which is decreased by 848 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 97 and it has been decreasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 67 male students for every 100 female students, up from 53 in 2015.
13 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -91.82% since 2015. (Note: The high increase/decrease may be due to the pandemic)

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 680 where 60 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment decreased every year from 2016 to 2025, falling from 1,005 to 60 students, a loss of 945 (94%).

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,005	871	318	553	134	31	103
2016-17	924 -81	784 -87	316 -2	468 -85	140 6	40 9	100 -3
2017-18	848 -76	694 -90	300 -16	394 -74	154 14	43 3	111 11
2018-19	848	660 -34	307 7	353 -41	188 34	64 21	124 13
2019-20	772 -76	608 -52	286 -21	322 -31	164 -24	53 -11	111 -13
2020-21	699 -73	541 -67	280 -6	261 -61	158 -6	44 -9	114 3
2021-22	647 -52	492 -49	255 -25	237 -24	155 -3	45 1	110 -4
2022-23	535 -112	409 -83	232 -23	177 -60	126 -29	41 -4	85 -25
2023-24	458 -77	379 -30	215 -17	164 -13	79 -47	29 -12	50 -35
2024-25	60 -398	23 -356	16 -199	7 -157	37 -42	8 -21	29 -21
Average	680	546	253	294	134	40	94

Eastern Nazarene College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 546 where 23 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 Eastern Nazarene College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	871	636	254	382	235	64	171
2016-17	784	656	286	370	128	30	98
2017-18	694	571	259	312	123	41	82
2018-19	660	578	284	294	82	23	59
2019-20	608	550	269	281	58	17	41
2020-21	541	512	266	246	29	14	15
2021-22	492	450	236	214	42	19	23
2022-23	409	381	222	159	28	10	18
2023-24	379	359	207	152	20	8	12
2024-25	23	17	12	5	6	4	2
Average	546	546	230	242	546	23	52

Eastern Nazarene College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 134 where 37 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 Eastern Nazarene College since 2015.

Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	134	59	13	46	75	18	57
2016-17	140	60	19	41	80	21	59
2017-18	154	88	26	62	66	17	49
2018-19	188	99	27	72	89	37	52
2019-20	164	97	36	61	67	17	50
2020-21	158	87	28	59	71	16	55
2021-22	155	91	32	59	64	13	51
2022-23	126	66	18	48	60	23	37
2023-24	79	51	20	31	28	9	19
2024-25	37	37	8	29	0	0	0
Average	134	134	23	51	134	17	43

Eastern Nazarene College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 58.33%. The percentage was 53.33% 10 years ago and Eastern Nazarene still has a high percentage of white students. 6.67% of enrolled students is Asian and 21.67% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.00% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 53.33% to 58.33%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.49% to 6.67%. Black student enrollment decreased from 23.58% to 21.67%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 11.14% to 5.00%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6058 which indicates that moderately diverse. This decreased from 0.6461 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

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

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	2015-16	1	15	237	112	3	536	35
2016-17	1	23	210	109	2	487	35
2017-18	1	24	189	100	4	449	31
2018-19	5	24	182	109	4	436	28
2019-20	5	29	140	115	2	378	36
2020-21	5	18	104	119	1	356	27
2021-22	1	17	98	112	1	314	20
2022-23	1	10	83	91	0	243	20
2023-24	1	9	65	97	1	178	26
2024-25	0	4	13	3	0	35	0
Average	2	17	132	97	2	341	26

Eastern Nazarene College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

13 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 22% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -91.82% since 2020. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Eastern Nazarene College from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	1,005	0	0	1,005
2016-17	924	0	0	924
2017-18	848	0	0	848
2018-19	848	0	0	848
2019-20	772	0	104	668
2020-21	699	159	156	384
2021-22	647	59	125	463
2022-23	535	31	179	325
2023-24	458	14	155	289
2024-25	60	13	16	31
Average	680	28	74	579

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Enrollment Trends at Eastern Nazarene

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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