Enrollment Trends at MCAD

The student population at Minneapolis College of Art and Design is 821 (702 undergraduate and 119 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 96 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at MCAD is 85.51% which is increased by 86 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 10 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 2.18 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

78 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 44.44% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 789 where 821 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

85.51% of total students is undergraduate students and 14.49% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 86 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 10 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.18 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in MCAD than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 2012.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	725	616	229	387	109	48	61
2013-14	791 66	688 72	246 17	442 55	103 -6	37 -11	66 5
2014-15	783 -8	672 -16	236 -10	436 -6	111 8	33 -4	78 12
2015-16	796 13	678 6	229 -7	449 13	118 7	38 5	80 2
2016-17	803 7	703 25	207 -22	496 47	100 -18	27 -11	73 -7
2017-18	774 -29	688 -15	216 9	472 -24	86 -14	21 -6	65 -8
2018-19	854 80	741 53	230 14	511 39	113 27	29 8	84 19
2019-20	796 -58	709 -32	210 -20	499 -12	87 -26	26 -3	61 -23
2020-21	760 -36	670 -39	203 -7	467 -32	90 3	23 -3	67 6
2021-22	775 15	675 5	213 10	462 -5	100 10	22 -1	78 11
2022-23	821 46	702 27	231 18	471 9	119 19	27 5	92 14
Average	789	686	223	463	103	30	73

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 686 where 702 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 Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	616	595	220	375	21	9	12
2013-14	688	665	236	429	23	10	13
2014-15	672	642	220	422	30	16	14
2015-16	678	659	216	443	19	13	6
2016-17	703	686	202	484	17	5	12
2017-18	688	668	209	459	20	7	13
2018-19	741	717	222	495	24	8	16
2019-20	709	698	207	491	11	3	8
2020-21	670	644	194	450	26	9	17
2021-22	675	667	209	458	8	4	4
2022-23	702	687	223	464	15	8	7
Average	686	686	214	452	686	8	11

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 103 where 119 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 Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	109	50	22	28	59	26	33
2013-14	103	33	11	22	70	26	44
2014-15	111	42	12	30	69	21	48
2015-16	118	53	18	35	65	20	45
2016-17	100	42	12	30	58	15	43
2017-18	86	30	7	23	56	14	42
2018-19	113	32	10	22	81	19	62
2019-20	87	27	12	15	60	14	46
2020-21	90	23	7	16	67	16	51
2021-22	100	38	9	29	62	13	49
2022-23	119	40	12	28	79	15	64
Average	103	103	12	25	103	18	48

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 62.85%. The percentage was 61.79% 10 years ago and MCAD still has a high percentage of white students. 6.82% of enrolled students is Asian and 4.14% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Minneapolis College of Art and Design 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	7	50	21	42	0	448	0
2013-14	7	57	24	44	0	461	0
2014-15	7	57	31	48	0	446	0
2015-16	8	53	35	41	0	465	22
2016-17	14	55	41	48	0	506	16
2017-18	13	59	42	51	1	503	13
2018-19	20	79	55	60	4	544	10
2019-20	13	66	36	68	3	518	24
2020-21	19	66	50	71	2	484	14
2021-22	17	63	44	77	0	488	34
2022-23	11	56	34	90	0	516	53
Average	12	60	38	58	1	489	17

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

78 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 10% of total students. The number of online students has increased 44.44% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	783	54	118	611
2015-16	796	51	93	652
2016-17	803	44	135	624
2017-18	774	38	116	620
2018-19	854	67	112	675
2019-20	796	55	105	636
2020-21	760	68	108	584
2021-22	775	62	158	555
2022-23	821	78	198	545
Average	796	57	127	611

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