Enrollment Trends at RWU

The student population at Roger Williams University is 4,397 (4,103 undergraduate and 294 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 371 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at RWU is 93.31% which is decreased by 288 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 83 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.03 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

222 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -35.65% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 4,793 where 4,397 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

93.31% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.69% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 288 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 83 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.03 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in RWU.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	4,768	4,391	2,269	2,122	377	152	225
2013-14	4,732 -36	4,411 20	2,225 -44	2,186 64	321 -56	144 -8	177 -48
2014-15	4,884 152	4,610 199	2,283 58	2,327 141	274 -47	131 -13	143 -34
2015-16	4,801 -83	4,555 -55	2,205 -78	2,350 23	246 -28	123 -8	123 -20
2016-17	5,193 392	4,902 347	2,241 36	2,661 311	291 45	126 3	165 42
2017-18	5,024 -169	4,703 -199	2,216 -25	2,487 -174	321 30	129 3	192 27
2018-19	4,860 -164	4,537 -166	2,193 -23	2,344 -143	323 2	141 12	182 -10
2019-20	4,838 -22	4,523 -14	2,212 19	2,311 -33	315 -8	144 3	171 -11
2020-21	4,702 -136	4,346 -177	2,151 -61	2,195 -116	356 41	141 -3	215 44
2021-22	4,529 -173	4,207 -139	2,118 -33	2,089 -106	322 -34	134 -7	188 -27
2022-23	4,397 -132	4,103 -104	2,058 -60	2,045 -44	294 -28	112 -22	182 -6
Average	4,793	4,481	2,197	2,283	313	134	178

Roger Williams University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 4,481 where 4,103 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 Roger Williams University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	4,391	3,774	1,926	1,848	617	343	274
2013-14	4,411	3,875	1,937	1,938	536	288	248
2014-15	4,610	4,030	1,977	2,053	580	306	274
2015-16	4,555	3,956	1,899	2,057	599	306	293
2016-17	4,902	4,124	1,902	2,222	778	339	439
2017-18	4,703	4,042	1,905	2,137	661	311	350
2018-19	4,537	3,962	1,920	2,042	575	273	302
2019-20	4,523	4,022	1,983	2,039	501	229	272
2020-21	4,346	3,828	1,891	1,937	518	260	258
2021-22	4,207	3,765	1,889	1,876	442	229	213
2022-23	4,103	3,701	1,828	1,873	402	230	172
Average	4,481	4,481	1,914	2,002	4,481	283	281

Roger Williams University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 313 where 294 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 Roger Williams University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	377	178	63	115	199	89	110
2013-14	321	166	68	98	155	76	79
2014-15	274	142	71	71	132	60	72
2015-16	246	184	90	94	62	33	29
2016-17	291	207	87	120	84	39	45
2017-18	321	173	65	108	148	64	84
2018-19	323	182	76	106	141	65	76
2019-20	315	180	77	103	135	67	68
2020-21	356	232	85	147	124	56	68
2021-22	322	225	87	138	97	47	50
2022-23	294	201	68	133	93	44	49
Average	313	313	76	112	313	58	66

Roger Williams University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 73.25%. The percentage was 74.18% 10 years ago and RWU still has a high percentage of white students. 2.07% of enrolled students is Asian and 3.27% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Roger Williams 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	14	62	143	214	1	3,537	77
2013-14	10	59	95	252	2	3,516	77
2014-15	42	107	117	238	3	3,496	4
2015-16	8	70	124	291	4	3,535	85
2016-17	8	66	145	324	44	3,699	88
2017-18	8	74	123	333	5	3,687	99
2018-19	9	76	128	397	3	3,677	122
2019-20	11	81	123	401	3	3,593	99
2020-21	8	85	145	449	2	3,492	113
2021-22	10	91	162	453	2	3,377	132
2022-23	10	91	144	433	4	3,221	126
Average	13	78	132	344	7	3,530	93

Roger Williams University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

222 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 5% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -35.65% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Roger Williams University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	4,884	345	198	4,341
2015-16	4,801	358	244	4,199
2016-17	5,193	370	278	4,545
2017-18	5,024	367	221	4,436
2018-19	4,860	312	255	4,293
2019-20	4,838	296	282	4,260
2020-21	4,702	150	4,052	500
2021-22	4,529	379	1,561	2,589
2022-23	4,397	222	417	3,758
Average	4,803	311	834	3,658

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