Enrollment Trends at MBU

The student population at Mary Baldwin University is 1,957 (1,314 undergraduate and 643 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 166 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at MBU is 67.14% which is decreased by 198 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 364 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 3.75 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

807 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 13.66% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,857 where 1,957 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

67.14% of total students is undergraduate students and 32.86% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 198 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 364 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.75 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in MBU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Mary Baldwin University since 2012.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,791	1,512	89	1,423	279	44	235
2013-14	1,711 -80	1,441 -71	92 3	1,349 -74	270 -9	37 -7	233 -2
2014-15	1,757 46	1,426 -15	102 10	1,324 -25	331 61	45 8	286 53
2015-16	1,666 -91	1,312 -114	94 -8	1,218 -106	354 23	63 18	291 5
2016-17	1,748 82	1,310 -2	101 7	1,209 -9	438 84	79 16	359 68
2017-18	1,654 -94	1,136 -174	85 -16	1,051 -158	518 80	85 6	433 74
2018-19	1,902 248	1,327 191	183 98	1,144 93	575 57	100 15	475 42
2019-20	1,986 84	1,407 80	272 89	1,135 -9	579 4	95 -5	484 9
2020-21	2,110 124	1,477 70	301 29	1,176 41	633 54	111 16	522 38
2021-22	2,142 32	1,489 12	311 10	1,178 2	653 20	124 13	529 7
2022-23	1,957 -185	1,314 -175	292 -19	1,022 -156	643 -10	120 -4	523 -6
Average	1,857	1,377	175	1,203	479	82	397

Mary Baldwin University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,377 where 1,314 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2022-2023. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Mary Baldwin University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,512	1,034	46	988	478	43	435
2013-14	1,441	1,037	46	991	404	46	358
2014-15	1,426	991	39	952	435	63	372
2015-16	1,312	897	35	862	415	59	356
2016-17	1,310	866	40	826	444	61	383
2017-18	1,136	720	37	683	416	48	368
2018-19	1,327	960	131	829	367	52	315
2019-20	1,407	1,043	208	835	364	64	300
2020-21	1,477	1,131	243	888	346	58	288
2021-22	1,489	1,214	265	949	275	46	229
2022-23	1,314	1,088	258	830	226	34	192
Average	1,377	1,377	123	876	1,377	52	327

Mary Baldwin University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 479 where 643 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2022-2023. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Mary Baldwin University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	279	118	19	99	161	25	136
2013-14	270	112	11	101	158	26	132
2014-15	331	174	25	149	157	20	137
2015-16	354	232	42	190	122	21	101
2016-17	438	327	66	261	111	13	98
2017-18	518	369	60	309	149	25	124
2018-19	575	411	70	341	164	30	134
2019-20	579	368	68	300	211	27	184
2020-21	633	410	78	332	223	33	190
2021-22	653	407	84	323	246	40	206
2022-23	643	375	89	286	268	31	237
Average	479	479	56	245	479	26	153

Mary Baldwin University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 57.64%. The percentage was 61.08% 10 years ago and MBU still has a high percentage of white students. 2.66% of enrolled students is Asian and 19.78% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Mary Baldwin University over the past 12 years (2012-2023).

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	2012-13	14	25	379	77	1	1,094	53
2013-14	13	54	369	88	3	1,014	47
2014-15	6	48	352	98	2	1,112	60
2015-16	8	35	311	77	4	1,057	59
2016-17	12	37	311	94	5	1,101	57
2017-18	10	41	260	84	4	1,084	49
2018-19	15	32	345	131	4	1,140	67
2019-20	6	30	372	131	3	1,041	66
2020-21	7	50	397	135	2	1,159	74
2021-22	6	59	436	149	2	1,223	75
2022-23	7	52	387	129	2	1,128	84
Average	9	42	356	108	3	1,105	63

Mary Baldwin University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

807 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 41% of total students. The number of online students has increased 13.66% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Mary Baldwin University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,757	710	28	1,019
2015-16	1,666	662	108	896
2016-17	1,748	506	239	1,003
2017-18	1,654	525	287	842
2018-19	1,902	695	340	867
2019-20	1,986	869	0	1,117
2020-21	2,110	720	506	884
2021-22	2,142	854	602	686
2022-23	1,957	807	530	620
Average	1,880	705	293	882

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