Enrollment Trends at PAFA

The student population at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is 172 (114 undergraduate and 58 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 122 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at PAFA is 66.28% which is decreased by 68 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 54 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 2.25 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

15 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by % since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 254 where 172 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

66.28% of total students is undergraduate students and 33.72% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 68 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 54 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.25 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in PAFA than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 2012.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	294	182	87	95	112	46	66
2013-14	299 5	198 16	81 -6	117 22	101 -11	40 -6	61 -5
2014-15	258 -41	169 -29	58 -23	111 -6	89 -12	37 -3	52 -9
2015-16	300 42	195 26	70 12	125 14	105 16	44 7	61 9
2016-17	287 -13	191 -4	67 -3	124 -1	96 -9	37 -7	59 -2
2017-18	268 -19	188 -3	59 -8	129 5	80 -16	28 -9	52 -7
2018-19	273 5	199 11	57 -2	142 13	74 -6	25 -3	49 -3
2019-20	273 0	193 -6	51 -6	142 0	80 6	20 -5	60 11
2020-21	188 -85	135 -58	34 -17	101 -41	53 -27	16 -4	37 -23
2021-22	178 -10	121 -14	29 -5	92 -9	57 4	12 -4	45 8
2022-23	172 -6	114 -7	36 7	78 -14	58 1	17 5	41 -4
Average	254	171	57	114	82	29	53

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 171 where 114 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 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	182	173	82	91	9	5	4
2013-14	198	190	76	114	8	5	3
2014-15	169	165	57	108	4	1	3
2015-16	195	191	69	122	4	1	3
2016-17	191	187	66	121	4	1	3
2017-18	188	182	58	124	6	1	5
2018-19	199	197	56	141	2	1	1
2019-20	193	191	51	140	2	0	2
2020-21	135	126	32	94	9	2	7
2021-22	121	119	28	91	2	1	1
2022-23	114	110	35	75	4	1	3
Average	171	171	55	111	171	2	3

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 82 where 58 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 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	112	112	46	66	0	0	0
2013-14	101	101	40	61	0	0	0
2014-15	89	89	37	52	0	0	0
2015-16	105	105	44	61	0	0	0
2016-17	96	96	37	59	0	0	0
2017-18	80	80	28	52	0	0	0
2018-19	74	74	25	49	0	0	0
2019-20	80	80	20	60	0	0	0
2020-21	53	53	16	37	0	0	0
2021-22	57	56	12	44	1	0	1
2022-23	58	44	12	32	14	5	9
Average	82	82	29	52	82	0	1

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.81%. The percentage was 60.88% 10 years ago and PAFA still has a high percentage of white students. 5.23% of enrolled students is Asian and 9.30% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 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	0	20	13	20	0	179	0
2013-14	1	15	16	21	0	192	3
2014-15	1	13	15	20	0	158	11
2015-16	0	22	13	18	0	188	19
2016-17	0	20	14	13	0	178	21
2017-18	0	10	18	18	0	166	19
2018-19	1	11	19	12	0	165	24
2019-20	2	15	13	11	0	171	24
2020-21	2	11	13	8	0	108	14
2021-22	2	8	14	7	0	106	16
2022-23	1	9	16	14	0	96	7
Average	1	14	15	15	0	155	14

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

15 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 9% of total students. The number of online students has decreased % since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	258	0	0	258
2015-16	300	0	15	285
2016-17	287	17	0	270
2017-18	268	9	0	259
2018-19	273	8	0	265
2019-20	273	13	0	260
2020-21	188	94	93	1
2021-22	178	15	98	65
2022-23	172	15	11	146
Average	244	19	24	201

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