Enrollment Trends at Rush

The student population at Rush University is 2,870 (115 undergraduate and 2,755 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 698 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Rush is 4.01% which is increased by 7 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 691 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 3.42 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

841 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 10.08% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 2,594 where 2,870 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

4.01% of total students is undergraduate students and 95.99% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 7 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 691 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.42 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Rush than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	2,172	108	30	78	2,064	564	1,500
2013-14	2,280 108	124 16	37 7	87 9	2,156 92	569 5	1,587 87
2014-15	2,457 177	143 19	46 9	97 10	2,314 158	614 45	1,700 113
2015-16	2,515 58	134 -9	45 -1	89 -8	2,381 67	586 -28	1,795 95
2016-17	2,503 -12	122 -12	40 -5	82 -7	2,381 0	605 19	1,776 -19
2017-18	2,569 66	109 -13	40 0	69 -13	2,460 79	644 39	1,816 40
2018-19	2,708 139	121 12	45 5	76 7	2,587 127	649 5	1,938 122
2019-20	2,755 47	112 -9	42 -3	70 -6	2,643 56	635 -14	2,008 70
2020-21	2,816 61	104 -8	30 -12	74 4	2,712 69	639 4	2,073 65
2021-22	2,889 73	118 14	29 -1	89 15	2,771 59	649 10	2,122 49
2022-23	2,870 -19	115 -3	25 -4	90 1	2,755 -16	624 -25	2,131 9
Average	2,594	119	37	82	2,475	616	1,859

Rush University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 119 where 115 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 Rush University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	108	76	18	58	32	12	20
2013-14	124	79	18	61	45	19	26
2014-15	143	95	28	67	48	18	30
2015-16	134	99	28	71	35	17	18
2016-17	122	83	20	63	39	20	19
2017-18	109	67	23	44	42	17	25
2018-19	121	76	24	52	45	21	24
2019-20	112	66	20	46	46	22	24
2020-21	104	52	11	41	52	19	33
2021-22	118	54	9	45	64	20	44
2022-23	115	48	9	39	67	16	51
Average	119	119	19	53	119	18	29

Rush University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 2,475 where 2,755 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 Rush University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	2,064	1,325	448	877	739	116	623
2013-14	2,156	1,363	451	912	793	118	675
2014-15	2,314	1,425	472	953	889	142	747
2015-16	2,381	1,317	446	871	1,064	140	924
2016-17	2,381	1,441	471	970	940	134	806
2017-18	2,460	1,514	510	1,004	946	134	812
2018-19	2,587	1,584	509	1,075	1,003	140	863
2019-20	2,643	1,610	495	1,115	1,033	140	893
2020-21	2,712	1,683	496	1,187	1,029	143	886
2021-22	2,771	1,757	527	1,230	1,014	122	892
2022-23	2,755	1,761	501	1,260	994	123	871
Average	2,475	2,475	484	1,041	2,475	132	817

Rush University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 56.55%. The percentage was 67.77% 10 years ago and Rush still has a high percentage of white students. 13.94% of enrolled students is Asian and 8.61% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Rush 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	6	308	138	159	9	1,472	23
2013-14	7	315	147	168	10	1,550	23
2014-15	6	337	159	196	3	1,645	29
2015-16	7	288	147	226	5	1,622	43
2016-17	3	299	148	227	1	1,599	59
2017-18	2	321	153	239	1	1,595	71
2018-19	1	280	174	274	3	1,675	61
2019-20	3	240	199	321	3	1,675	50
2020-21	2	224	236	345	1	1,690	47
2021-22	1	340	240	375	0	1,723	53
2022-23	1	400	247	393	0	1,623	58
Average	4	305	181	266	3	1,624	47

Rush University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

841 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 29% of total students. The number of online students has increased 10.08% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Rush University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	2,457	764	938	755
2015-16	2,515	630	881	1,004
2016-17	2,503	576	957	970
2017-18	2,569	453	1,125	991
2018-19	2,708	565	906	1,237
2019-20	2,755	574	877	1,304
2020-21	2,816	939	1,118	759
2021-22	2,889	907	950	1,032
2022-23	2,870	841	1,354	675
Average	2,676	694	1,012	970

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