Enrollment Trends at Pfeiffer

The student population at Pfeiffer University is 1,076 (683 undergraduate and 393 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 968 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Pfeiffer is 63.48% which is decreased by 297 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 671 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.59 to 1 which means that female students enrolled more than male students.

242 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -47.51% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,460 where 1,076 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

63.48% of total students is undergraduate students and 36.52% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 297 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 671 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.59 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Pfeiffer than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	2,044	980	373	607	1,064	299	765
2013-14	1,860 -184	951 -29	377 4	574 -33	909 -155	240 -59	669 -96
2014-15	1,784 -76	958 7	396 19	562 -12	826 -83	240 0	586 -83
2015-16	1,624 -160	917 -41	384 -12	533 -29	707 -119	210 -30	497 -89
2016-17	1,414 -210	848 -69	385 1	463 -70	566 -141	155 -55	411 -86
2017-18	1,306 -108	813 -35	391 6	422 -41	493 -73	138 -17	355 -56
2018-19	1,365 59	900 87	381 -10	519 97	465 -28	131 -7	334 -21
2019-20	1,277 -88	897 -3	364 -17	533 14	380 -85	117 -14	263 -71
2020-21	1,185 -92	812 -85	321 -43	491 -42	373 -7	114 -3	259 -4
2021-22	1,122 -63	744 -68	315 -6	429 -62	378 5	106 -8	272 13
2022-23	1,076 -46	683 -61	322 7	361 -68	393 15	93 -13	300 28
Average	1,460	864	364	499	596	168	428

Pfeiffer University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 864 where 683 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 Pfeiffer University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	980	887	345	542	93	28	65
2013-14	951	856	350	506	95	27	68
2014-15	958	844	374	470	114	22	92
2015-16	917	817	356	461	100	28	72
2016-17	848	739	348	391	109	37	72
2017-18	813	733	359	374	80	32	48
2018-19	900	845	361	484	55	20	35
2019-20	897	837	351	486	60	13	47
2020-21	812	769	305	464	43	16	27
2021-22	744	719	302	417	25	13	12
2022-23	683	657	309	348	26	13	13
Average	864	864	342	449	864	23	50

Pfeiffer University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 596 where 393 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 Pfeiffer University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,064	201	52	149	863	247	616
2013-14	909	185	36	149	724	204	520
2014-15	826	118	24	94	708	216	492
2015-16	707	133	38	95	574	172	402
2016-17	566	124	30	94	442	125	317
2017-18	493	107	22	85	386	116	270
2018-19	465	105	27	78	360	104	256
2019-20	380	78	16	62	302	101	201
2020-21	373	115	23	92	258	91	167
2021-22	378	161	27	134	217	79	138
2022-23	393	139	18	121	254	75	179
Average	596	596	28	105	596	139	323

Pfeiffer University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 58.27%. The percentage was 53.03% 10 years ago and Pfeiffer still has a high percentage of white students. 2.14% of enrolled students is Asian and 23.23% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Pfeiffer 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	2	29	568	55	1	1,084	16
2013-14	5	24	478	56	1	925	24
2014-15	6	24	460	57	1	959	20
2015-16	6	24	419	51	1	877	21
2016-17	10	17	398	69	1	790	18
2017-18	5	19	351	76	3	773	38
2018-19	5	13	398	97	3	772	43
2019-20	11	16	349	107	4	736	29
2020-21	9	19	307	105	1	692	28
2021-22	11	16	282	109	2	651	30
2022-23	8	23	250	99	2	627	43
Average	7	20	387	80	2	808	28

Pfeiffer University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

242 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 23% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -47.51% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Pfeiffer University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,784	461	350	973
2015-16	1,624	477	330	817
2016-17	1,414	439	270	705
2017-18	1,306	35	432	839
2018-19	1,365	31	584	750
2019-20	1,277	368	127	782
2020-21	1,185	319	170	696
2021-22	1,122	95	462	565
2022-23	1,076	242	418	416
Average	1,350	274	349	727

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