Enrollment Trends at Pfeiffer

The student population at Pfeiffer University is 889 (696 undergraduate and 193 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 735 (45.26%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Pfeiffer is 78.29% which is decreased by 221 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 514 and it has been decreasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 91 male students for every 100 female students, up from 58 in 2015.
144 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -69.81% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,221 where 889 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 1 year-over-year increase and 8 decreases. It peaked at 1,624 students in 2016 and was lowest at 889 in 2025. Overall, enrollment dropped from 1,624 to 889 students, a net loss of 735 (45.3%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Pfeiffer University since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,624	917	384	533	707	210	497
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
2023-24	954 -122	654 -29	342 20	312 -49	300 -93	73 -20	227 -73
2024-25	889 -65	696 42	384 42	312	193 -107	39 -34	154 -73
Average	1,221	796	359	438	425	118	307

Pfeiffer University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 796 where 696 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Pfeiffer University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
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
2023-24	654	624	327	297	30	15	15
2024-25	696	636	353	283	60	31	29
Average	796	796	337	401	796	22	37

Pfeiffer University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 425 where 193 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Pfeiffer University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
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
2023-24	300	102	9	93	198	64	134
2024-25	193	68	3	65	125	36	89
Average	425	425	21	92	425	96	215

Pfeiffer University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 57.93%. The percentage was 54.00% 10 years ago and Pfeiffer still has a high percentage of white students. 1.46% of enrolled students is Asian and 20.81% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.11% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 54.00% to 57.93%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.48% to 1.46%. Black student enrollment decreased from 25.80% to 20.81%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.14% to 9.11%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6114 which indicates that moderately diverse. This decreased from 0.6404 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Pfeiffer University over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	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
2023-24	2	16	222	84	3	561	39
2024-25	4	13	185	81	2	515	30
Average	7	18	316	88	2	699	32

Pfeiffer University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

144 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 16% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -69.81% since 2015. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Pfeiffer University from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
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
2023-24	954	199	373	382
2024-25	889	144	142	603
Average	1,221	235	331	656

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Enrollment Trends at Pfeiffer

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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