Enrollment Trends at Hastings

The student population at Hastings College is 956 (933 undergraduate and 23 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 263 (21.58%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Hastings is 97.59% which is decreased by 245 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 18 and it has been decreasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 99 male students for every 100 female students, down from 102 in 2015.
All students have enrolled in on-campus classes (Hastings 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 1,058 where 956 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 2 year-over-year increases and 7 decreases. It peaked at 1,246 students in 2017 and was lowest at 936 in 2023. Overall, enrollment dropped from 1,219 to 956 students, a net loss of 263 (21.6%).

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,219	1,178	605	573	41	12	29
2016-17	1,246 27	1,186 8	593 -12	593 20	60 19	21 9	39 10
2017-18	1,202 -44	1,155 -31	592 -1	563 -30	47 -13	18 -3	29 -10
2018-19	1,080 -122	1,048 -107	521 -71	527 -36	32 -15	22 4	10 -19
2019-20	998 -82	967 -81	482 -39	485 -42	31 -1	21 -1	10
2020-21	982 -16	956 -11	460 -22	496 11	26 -5	18 -3	8 -2
2021-22	946 -36	924 -32	425 -35	499 3	22 -4	12 -6	10 2
2022-23	936 -10	919 -5	442 17	477 -22	17 -5	14 2	3 -7
2023-24	1,011 75	990 71	469 27	521 44	21 4	13 -1	8 5
2024-25	956 -55	933 -57	461 -8	472 -49	23 2	14 1	9 1
Average	1,058	1,026	505	521	32	17	16

Hastings College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,026 where 933 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 Hastings College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,178	1,101	570	531	77	35	42
2016-17	1,186	1,108	553	555	78	40	38
2017-18	1,155	1,073	547	526	82	45	37
2018-19	1,048	950	472	478	98	49	49
2019-20	967	958	477	481	9	5	4
2020-21	956	948	457	491	8	3	5
2021-22	924	919	422	497	5	3	2
2022-23	919	911	438	473	8	4	4
2023-24	990	965	464	501	25	5	20
2024-25	933	897	457	440	36	4	32
Average	1,026	1,026	486	497	1,026	19	23

Hastings College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 32 where 23 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 Hastings College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	41	30	12	18	11	0	11
2016-17	60	32	15	17	28	6	22
2017-18	47	25	16	9	22	2	20
2018-19	32	30	22	8	2	0	2
2019-20	31	27	19	8	4	2	2
2020-21	26	24	16	8	2	2	0
2021-22	22	12	8	4	10	4	6
2022-23	17	15	12	3	2	2	0
2023-24	21	17	11	6	4	2	2
2024-25	23	22	14	8	1	0	1
Average	32	32	15	9	32	2	7

Hastings College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 61.09%. The percentage was 80.39% 10 years ago and Hastings still has a high percentage of white students. 0.94% of enrolled students is Asian and 4.18% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 13.70% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 80.39% to 61.09%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.15% to 0.94%. Black student enrollment increased from 3.61% to 4.18%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.63% to 13.70%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6056 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.3454 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Hastings 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	7	14	44	93	5	980	38
2016-17	4	12	38	87	8	994	34
2017-18	5	14	45	78	6	969	61
2018-19	4	7	49	98	3	760	30
2019-20	3	6	49	106	1	733	32
2020-21	1	6	57	105	2	696	32
2021-22	4	4	42	103	3	652	34
2022-23	6	6	56	93	2	628	24
2023-24	14	13	54	115	0	652	20
2024-25	10	9	40	131	0	584	21
Average	6	9	47	101	3	765	33

Hastings College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

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Enrollment Trends at Hastings

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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