Enrollment Trends at Piedmont

The student population at Piedmont University is 1,843 (1,245 undergraduate and 598 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 621 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Piedmont is 67.55% which is decreased by 49 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 572 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 2.54 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

572 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 2,278 where 1,843 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

67.55% of total students is undergraduate students and 32.45% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 49 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 572 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.54 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Piedmont than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	2,464	1,294	409	885	1,170	239	931
2013-14	2,368 -96	1,281 -13	425 16	856 -29	1,087 -83	242 3	845 -86
2014-15	2,120 -248	1,286 5	441 16	845 -11	834 -253	166 -76	668 -177
2015-16	2,264 144	1,284 -2	433 -8	851 6	980 146	206 40	774 106
2016-17	2,266 2	1,295 11	471 38	824 -27	971 -9	210 4	761 -13
2017-18	2,361 95	1,281 -14	434 -37	847 23	1,080 109	212 2	868 107
2018-19	2,449 88	1,263 -18	437 3	826 -21	1,186 106	192 -20	994 126
2019-20	2,510 61	1,283 20	450 13	833 7	1,227 41	207 15	1,020 26
2020-21	2,350 -160	1,278 -5	440 -10	838 5	1,072 -155	176 -31	896 -124
2021-22	2,060 -290	1,255 -23	416 -24	839 1	805 -267	161 -15	644 -252
2022-23	1,843 -217	1,245 -10	382 -34	863 24	598 -207	139 -22	459 -185
Average	2,278	1,277	431	846	1,001	195	805

Piedmont University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,277 where 1,245 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 Piedmont University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,294	1,105	353	752	189	56	133
2013-14	1,281	1,131	380	751	150	45	105
2014-15	1,286	1,137	389	748	149	52	97
2015-16	1,284	1,133	386	747	151	47	104
2016-17	1,295	1,177	438	739	118	33	85
2017-18	1,281	1,160	409	751	121	25	96
2018-19	1,263	1,153	403	750	110	34	76
2019-20	1,283	1,155	419	736	128	31	97
2020-21	1,278	1,151	403	748	127	37	90
2021-22	1,255	1,117	385	732	138	31	107
2022-23	1,245	1,135	359	776	110	23	87
Average	1,277	1,277	393	748	1,277	38	98

Piedmont University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 1,001 where 598 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 Piedmont University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,170	405	99	306	765	140	625
2013-14	1,087	370	101	269	717	141	576
2014-15	834	388	90	298	446	76	370
2015-16	980	330	88	242	650	118	532
2016-17	971	380	96	284	591	114	477
2017-18	1,080	387	94	293	693	118	575
2018-19	1,186	523	96	427	663	96	567
2019-20	1,227	454	94	360	773	113	660
2020-21	1,072	462	89	373	610	87	523
2021-22	805	309	67	242	496	94	402
2022-23	598	131	33	98	467	106	361
Average	1,001	1,001	86	290	1,001	109	515

Piedmont University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 68.10%. The percentage was 81.09% 10 years ago and Piedmont still has a high percentage of white students. 1.14% of enrolled students is Asian and 16.28% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Piedmont 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	9	30	265	57	1	1,998	34
2013-14	10	34	239	65	2	1,857	42
2014-15	12	32	219	68	1	1,598	37
2015-16	8	23	224	80	7	1,690	37
2016-17	10	32	232	119	6	1,650	48
2017-18	7	26	271	137	1	1,704	4
2018-19	7	27	279	113	4	1,813	3
2019-20	11	28	283	132	3	1,874	13
2020-21	8	29	292	123	2	1,732	19
2021-22	5	22	292	127	1	1,485	26
2022-23	4	21	300	146	0	1,255	31
Average	8	28	263	106	3	1,696	27

Piedmont University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

572 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 31% 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 Piedmont University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	2,120	0	0	2,120
2015-16	2,264	0	0	2,264
2016-17	2,266	46	159	2,061
2017-18	2,361	41	393	1,927
2018-19	2,449	18	407	2,024
2019-20	2,510	70	517	1,923
2020-21	2,350	889	508	953
2021-22	2,060	754	439	867
2022-23	1,843	572	573	698
Average	2,247	266	333	1,649

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