Enrollment Trends at IPFW

The student population at Purdue University Fort Wayne is 9,069 (8,390 undergraduate and 679 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 4,702 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at IPFW is 92.51% which is decreased by 4,727 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 25 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 1.08 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

692 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 6.30% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 11,036 where 9,069 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

92.51% of total students is undergraduate students and 7.49% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 4,727 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 25 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.08 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in IPFW.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	13,771	13,117	5,849	7,268	654	272	382
2013-14	13,459 -312	12,928 -189	5,827 -22	7,101 -167	531 -123	215 -57	316 -66
2014-15	13,214 -245	12,674 -254	5,663 -164	7,011 -90	540 9	217 2	323 7
2015-16	12,719 -495	12,160 -514	5,467 -196	6,693 -318	559 19	236 19	323 0
2016-17	12,010 -709	11,453 -707	5,026 -441	6,427 -266	557 -2	229 -7	328 5
2017-18	10,414 -1,596	9,957 -1,496	4,406 -620	5,551 -876	457 -100	210 -19	247 -81
2018-19	10,139 -275	9,664 -293	4,449 43	5,215 -336	475 18	221 11	254 7
2019-20	10,208 69	9,697 33	4,487 38	5,210 -5	511 36	252 31	259 5
2020-21	8,093 -2,115	7,584 -2,113	3,582 -905	4,002 -1,208	509 -2	250 -2	259 0
2021-22	8,298 205	7,768 184	3,767 185	4,001 -1	530 21	247 -3	283 24
2022-23	9,069 771	8,390 622	4,027 260	4,363 362	679 149	325 78	354 71
Average	11,036	10,490	4,777	5,713	546	243	303

Purdue University Fort Wayne Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 10,490 where 8,390 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 Purdue University Fort Wayne since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	13,117	7,870	3,571	4,299	5,247	2,278	2,969
2013-14	12,928	7,418	3,431	3,987	5,510	2,396	3,114
2014-15	12,674	6,971	3,195	3,776	5,703	2,468	3,235
2015-16	12,160	6,656	3,071	3,585	5,504	2,396	3,108
2016-17	11,453	6,384	2,828	3,556	5,069	2,198	2,871
2017-18	9,957	5,913	2,636	3,277	4,044	1,770	2,274
2018-19	9,664	5,702	2,698	3,004	3,962	1,751	2,211
2019-20	9,697	5,370	2,579	2,791	4,327	1,908	2,419
2020-21	7,584	5,161	2,517	2,644	2,423	1,065	1,358
2021-22	7,768	4,752	2,395	2,357	3,016	1,372	1,644
2022-23	8,390	4,533	2,320	2,213	3,857	1,707	2,150
Average	10,490	10,490	2,840	3,226	10,490	1,937	2,487

Purdue University Fort Wayne Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 546 where 679 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 Purdue University Fort Wayne since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	654	138	82	56	516	190	326
2013-14	531	119	61	58	412	154	258
2014-15	540	135	65	70	405	152	253
2015-16	559	139	76	63	420	160	260
2016-17	557	131	70	61	426	159	267
2017-18	457	111	66	45	346	144	202
2018-19	475	136	86	50	339	135	204
2019-20	511	171	107	64	340	145	195
2020-21	509	163	87	76	346	163	183
2021-22	530	220	115	105	310	132	178
2022-23	679	307	166	141	372	159	213
Average	546	546	89	72	546	154	231

Purdue University Fort Wayne Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 72.39%. The percentage was 81.85% 10 years ago and IPFW still has a high percentage of white students. 4.58% of enrolled students is Asian and 5.49% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Purdue University Fort Wayne 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	47	315	796	668	6	11,272	352
2013-14	41	332	686	675	5	11,041	365
2014-15	36	327	632	661	3	10,913	343
2015-16	32	338	544	686	4	10,430	332
2016-17	26	334	522	687	6	9,746	347
2017-18	16	335	514	646	5	8,288	355
2018-19	21	337	562	772	7	7,778	372
2019-20	17	372	554	777	8	7,715	442
2020-21	9	315	506	698	4	5,950	340
2021-22	15	359	456	664	5	6,162	324
2022-23	16	415	498	802	3	6,565	362
Average	25	344	570	703	5	8,715	358

Purdue University Fort Wayne Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

692 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 8% of total students. The number of online students has increased 6.30% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Purdue University Fort Wayne from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	13,214	651	3,513	9,050
2015-16	12,719	716	3,374	8,629
2016-17	12,010	663	3,604	7,743
2017-18	10,414	566	2,822	7,026
2018-19	10,139	513	3,075	6,551
2019-20	10,208	482	2,785	6,941
2020-21	8,093	854	4,360	2,879
2021-22	8,298	652	2,908	4,738
2022-23	9,069	692	2,785	5,592
Average	10,463	643	3,247	6,572

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