Enrollment Trends at Franklin

The student population at Franklin College is 985 (931 undergraduate and 54 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 102 (9.38%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Franklin is 94.52% which is decreased by 156 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 54 and it has been increasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 96 male students for every 100 female students, up from 90 in 2015.
All students have enrolled in on-campus classes (Franklin College does not offer online degree/certificate program).

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 995 where 985 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 4 year-over-year increases and 5 decreases. It peaked at 1,087 students in 2016 and was lowest at 956 in 2020. Overall, enrollment dropped from 1,087 to 985 students, a net loss of 102 (9.4%).

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,087	1,087	516	571	0	0	0
2016-17	1,023 -64	1,015 -72	491 -25	524 -47	8 8	2 2	6 6
2017-18	1,034 11	1,016 1	483 -8	533 9	18 10	5 3	13 7
2018-19	982 -52	960 -56	466 -17	494 -39	22 4	11 6	11 -2
2019-20	956 -26	922 -38	443 -23	479 -15	34 12	9 -2	25 14
2020-21	994 38	938 16	453 10	485 6	56 22	13 4	43 18
2021-22	962 -32	899 -39	483 30	416 -69	63 7	16 3	47 4
2022-23	959 -3	896 -3	468 -15	428 12	63	15 -1	48 1
2023-24	966 7	911 15	485 17	426 -2	55 -8	16 1	39 -9
2024-25	985 19	931 20	466 -19	465 39	54 -1	17 1	37 -2
Average	995	958	475	482	37	10	27

Franklin College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 958 where 931 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 Franklin College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,087	1,015	483	532	72	33	39
2016-17	1,015	960	467	493	55	24	31
2017-18	1,016	962	460	502	54	23	31
2018-19	960	911	442	469	49	24	25
2019-20	922	876	416	460	46	27	19
2020-21	938	896	431	465	42	22	20
2021-22	899	867	467	400	32	16	16
2022-23	896	850	448	402	46	20	26
2023-24	911	865	461	404	46	24	22
2024-25	931	889	443	446	42	23	19
Average	958	958	452	457	958	24	25

Franklin College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 37 where 54 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 Franklin College since 2015.

Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	8	8	2	6	0	0	0
2017-18	18	17	5	12	1	0	1
2018-19	22	20	10	10	2	1	1
2019-20	34	32	8	24	2	1	1
2020-21	56	56	13	43	0	0	0
2021-22	63	61	15	46	2	1	1
2022-23	63	57	10	47	6	5	1
2023-24	55	55	16	39	0	0	0
2024-25	54	54	17	37	0	0	0
Average	37	37	10	26	37	1	1

Franklin College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 77.36%. The percentage was 83.62% 10 years ago and Franklin still has a high percentage of white students. 1.62% of enrolled students is Asian and 5.79% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.08% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 83.62% to 77.36%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.01% to 1.62%. Black student enrollment increased from 3.59% to 5.79%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.67% to 5.08%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.3936 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.2971 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Franklin 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	2	11	39	29	0	909	42
2016-17	2	10	49	37	0	859	39
2017-18	3	8	43	26	1	891	38
2018-19	3	7	32	28	0	852	38
2019-20	3	7	31	39	0	817	28
2020-21	4	14	37	37	0	840	33
2021-22	1	16	51	45	0	790	40
2022-23	1	17	54	53	0	774	42
2023-24	1	15	67	51	0	777	35
2024-25	2	16	57	50	1	762	41
Average	2	12	46	40	0	827	38

Franklin College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

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Enrollment Trends at Franklin

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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