Enrollment Trends at Mars Hill

The student population at Mars Hill University is 1,110 (1,061 undergraduate and 49 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 300 (21.28%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Mars Hill is 95.59% which is decreased by 334 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 34 and it has been increasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 100 male students for every 100 female students, up from 95 in 2015.
57 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 1,800.00% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,160 where 1,110 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 3 year-over-year increases and 6 decreases. It peaked at 1,410 students in 2016 and was lowest at 1,032 in 2023. Overall, enrollment dropped from 1,410 to 1,110 students, a net loss of 300 (21.3%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Mars Hill University since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,410	1,395	685	710	15	2	13
2016-17	1,375 -35	1,371 -24	644 -41	727 17	4 -11	1 -1	3 -10
2017-18	1,277 -98	1,263 -108	563 -81	700 -27	14 10	5 4	9 6
2018-19	1,154 -123	1,132 -131	524 -39	608 -92	22 8	7 2	15 6
2019-20	1,066 -88	1,042 -90	478 -46	564 -44	24 2	9 2	15
2020-21	1,049 -17	1,019 -23	482 4	537 -27	30 6	13 4	17 2
2021-22	1,073 24	1,026 7	505 23	521 -16	47 17	23 10	24 7
2022-23	1,032 -41	994 -32	508 3	486 -35	38 -9	14 -9	24
2023-24	1,049 17	1,002 8	515 7	487 1	47 9	27 13	20 -4
2024-25	1,110 61	1,061 59	534 19	527 40	49 2	20 -7	29 9
Average	1,160	1,131	544	587	29	12	17

Mars Hill University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,131 where 1,061 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 Mars Hill University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,395	1,284	649	635	111	36	75
2016-17	1,371	1,264	601	663	107	43	64
2017-18	1,263	1,199	542	657	64	21	43
2018-19	1,132	1,079	503	576	53	21	32
2019-20	1,042	987	459	528	55	19	36
2020-21	1,019	963	468	495	56	14	42
2021-22	1,026	967	487	480	59	18	41
2022-23	994	914	478	436	80	30	50
2023-24	1,002	949	497	452	53	18	35
2024-25	1,061	997	510	487	64	24	40
Average	1,131	1,131	519	541	1,131	24	46

Mars Hill University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 29 where 49 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 Mars Hill University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	15	15	2	13	0	0	0
2016-17	4	4	1	3	0	0	0
2017-18	14	14	5	9	0	0	0
2018-19	22	9	5	4	13	2	11
2019-20	24	11	6	5	13	3	10
2020-21	30	13	8	5	17	5	12
2021-22	47	28	13	15	19	10	9
2022-23	38	21	9	12	17	5	12
2023-24	47	29	22	7	18	5	13
2024-25	49	27	15	12	22	5	17
Average	29	29	9	9	29	4	8

Mars Hill University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 64.23%. The percentage was 68.51% 10 years ago and Mars Hill still has a high percentage of white students. 0.99% of enrolled students is Asian and 15.32% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.19% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 68.51% to 64.23%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.92% to 0.99%. Black student enrollment decreased from 21.42% to 15.32%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.33% to 9.19%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5552 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4832 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Mars Hill University 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	20	13	302	47	2	966	15
2016-17	17	22	273	75	2	909	28
2017-18	21	24	230	52	1	801	46
2018-19	18	21	219	66	1	689	45
2019-20	13	7	184	74	1	688	44
2020-21	8	11	202	58	2	674	35
2021-22	3	12	210	74	1	677	23
2022-23	10	10	180	94	2	659	12
2023-24	8	13	187	100	3	664	7
2024-25	14	11	170	102	4	713	2
Average	13	14	216	74	2	744	26

Mars Hill University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

57 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 5% of total students. The number of online students has increased 1,800.00% since 2017. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Mars Hill University from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	1,410	0	113	1,297
2016-17	1,375	0	186	1,189
2017-18	1,277	3	75	1,199
2018-19	1,154	3	44	1,107
2019-20	1,066	5	109	952
2020-21	1,051	45	581	425
2021-22	1,073	53	377	643
2022-23	1,032	75	294	663
2023-24	1,049	67	298	684
2024-25	1,110	57	342	711
Average	1,160	31	242	887

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Enrollment Trends at Mars Hill

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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