Enrollment Trends at Mount Mercy

The student population at Mount Mercy University is 1,526 (1,271 undergraduate and 255 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 284 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Mount Mercy is 83.29% which is decreased by 242 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 42 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.82 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

232 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 1,060.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,763 where 1,526 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

83.29% of total students is undergraduate students and 16.71% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 242 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 42 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.82 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Mount Mercy than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,810	1,513	475	1,038	297	83	214
2013-14	1,761 -49	1,476 -37	454 -21	1,022 -16	285 -12	88 5	197 -17
2014-15	1,762 1	1,444 -32	426 -28	1,018 -4	318 33	90 2	228 31
2015-16	1,877 115	1,543 99	447 21	1,096 78	334 16	98 8	236 8
2016-17	1,886 9	1,580 37	482 35	1,098 2	306 -28	97 -1	209 -27
2017-18	1,848 -38	1,517 -63	491 9	1,026 -72	331 25	109 12	222 13
2018-19	1,835 -13	1,501 -16	470 -21	1,031 5	334 3	120 11	214 -8
2019-20	1,807 -28	1,442 -59	462 -8	980 -51	365 31	119 -1	246 32
2020-21	1,705 -102	1,381 -61	441 -21	940 -40	324 -41	95 -24	229 -17
2021-22	1,580 -125	1,290 -91	444 3	846 -94	290 -34	99 4	191 -38
2022-23	1,526 -54	1,271 -19	472 28	799 -47	255 -35	70 -29	185 -6
Average	1,763	1,451	460	990	313	97	216

Mount Mercy University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,451 where 1,271 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 Mount Mercy University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,513	915	293	622	598	182	416
2013-14	1,476	882	273	609	594	181	413
2014-15	1,444	858	254	604	586	172	414
2015-16	1,543	957	290	667	586	157	429
2016-17	1,580	1,046	346	700	534	136	398
2017-18	1,517	1,083	372	711	434	119	315
2018-19	1,501	1,074	357	717	427	113	314
2019-20	1,442	1,070	356	714	372	106	266
2020-21	1,381	1,044	340	704	337	101	236
2021-22	1,290	1,013	356	657	277	88	189
2022-23	1,271	998	392	606	273	80	193
Average	1,451	1,451	330	665	1,451	130	326

Mount Mercy University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 313 where 255 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 Mount Mercy University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	297	108	14	94	189	69	120
2013-14	285	113	26	87	172	62	110
2014-15	318	150	31	119	168	59	109
2015-16	334	147	35	112	187	63	124
2016-17	306	116	29	87	190	68	122
2017-18	331	125	28	97	206	81	125
2018-19	334	142	36	106	192	84	108
2019-20	365	108	23	85	257	96	161
2020-21	324	113	30	83	211	65	146
2021-22	290	116	27	89	174	72	102
2022-23	255	105	26	79	150	44	106
Average	313	313	28	94	313	69	121

Mount Mercy University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 73.20%. The percentage was 83.54% 10 years ago and Mount Mercy still has a high percentage of white students. 2.10% of enrolled students is Asian and 6.68% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Mount Mercy 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	6	29	57	43	2	1,512	7
2013-14	11	31	69	31	2	1,477	9
2014-15	6	25	74	24	2	1,466	25
2015-16	20	32	127	27	1	1,511	35
2016-17	21	37	126	25	3	1,500	36
2017-18	24	40	124	19	7	1,464	35
2018-19	23	44	146	14	6	1,423	38
2019-20	14	31	155	11	8	1,377	35
2020-21	13	32	134	22	5	1,321	43
2021-22	5	33	119	21	1	1,203	73
2022-23	3	32	102	32	0	1,117	95
Average	13	33	112	24	3	1,397	39

Mount Mercy University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

232 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 15% of total students. The number of online students has increased 1,060.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Mount Mercy University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,762	20	15	1,727
2015-16	1,877	75	142	1,660
2016-17	1,886	133	178	1,575
2017-18	1,848	187	188	1,473
2018-19	1,835	233	262	1,340
2019-20	1,807	275	248	1,284
2020-21	1,705	352	226	1,127
2021-22	1,580	306	186	1,088
2022-23	1,526	232	281	1,013
Average	1,758	201	192	1,365

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