Enrollment Trends at Sacred Heart Major Seminary

The student population at Sacred Heart Major Seminary is 351 (188 undergraduate and 163 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 114 (24.52%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Sacred Heart Major Seminary is 53.56% which is decreased by 95 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 19 and it has been decreasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 222 male students for every 100 female students, up from 160 in 2015.
112 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 75.00% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 414 where 351 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 4 year-over-year increases and 5 decreases. It peaked at 496 students in 2018 and was lowest at 300 in 2022. Overall, enrollment dropped from 465 to 351 students, a net loss of 114 (24.5%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Sacred Heart Major Seminary since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	465	283	155	128	182	131	51
2016-17	483 18	293 10	155	138 10	190 8	149 18	41 -10
2017-18	496 13	285 -8	158 3	127 -11	211 21	165 16	46 5
2018-19	480 -16	293 8	158	135 8	187 -24	141 -24	46
2019-20	450 -30	279 -14	157 -1	122 -13	171 -16	137 -4	34 -12
2020-21	418 -32	253 -26	147 -10	106 -16	165 -6	134 -3	31 -3
2021-22	300 -118	190 -63	125 -22	65 -41	110 -55	86 -48	24 -7
2022-23	338 38	172 -18	97 -28	75 10	166 56	126 40	40 16
2023-24	357 19	188 16	96 -1	92 17	169 3	146 20	23 -17
2024-25	351 -6	188	106 10	82 -10	163 -6	136 -10	27 4
Average	414	242	135	107	171	135	36

Sacred Heart Major Seminary Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 242 where 188 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 Sacred Heart Major Seminary since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	283	56	54	2	227	101	126
2016-17	293	55	53	2	238	102	136
2017-18	285	57	56	1	228	102	126
2018-19	293	61	61	0	232	97	135
2019-20	279	54	51	3	225	106	119
2020-21	253	75	73	2	178	74	104
2021-22	190	48	47	1	142	78	64
2022-23	172	33	32	1	139	65	74
2023-24	188	28	28	0	160	68	92
2024-25	188	27	27	0	161	79	82
Average	242	242	48	1	242	87	106

Sacred Heart Major Seminary Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 171 where 163 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 Sacred Heart Major Seminary since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	182	64	60	4	118	71	47
2016-17	190	59	53	6	131	96	35
2017-18	211	63	59	4	148	106	42
2018-19	187	55	54	1	132	87	45
2019-20	171	57	57	0	114	80	34
2020-21	165	60	59	1	105	75	30
2021-22	110	46	45	1	64	41	23
2022-23	166	65	64	1	101	62	39
2023-24	169	64	64	0	105	82	23
2024-25	163	58	58	0	105	78	27
Average	171	171	57	2	171	78	35

Sacred Heart Major Seminary Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 52.71%. The percentage was 57.63% 10 years ago and Sacred Heart Major Seminary still has a high percentage of white students. 2.28% of enrolled students is Asian and 1.14% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.97% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 57.63% to 52.71%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.51% to 2.28%. Black student enrollment increased from 0.86% to 1.14%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 14.19% to 9.97%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6991 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.6474 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Sacred Heart Major Seminary 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	0	7	4	66	0	268	1
2016-17	1	8	5	73	0	268	2
2017-18	0	7	11	68	0	262	5
2018-19	0	7	12	69	0	306	12
2019-20	0	9	11	71	0	317	7
2020-21	0	8	7	56	0	277	5
2021-22	0	9	2	45	0	149	4
2022-23	0	9	7	44	0	219	12
2023-24	14	6	5	31	0	215	4
2024-25	39	8	4	35	0	185	4
Average	5	8	7	56	0	247	6

Sacred Heart Major Seminary Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

112 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 32% of total students. The number of online students has increased 75.00% since 2018. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Sacred Heart Major Seminary from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	465	0	21	444
2016-17	483	0	43	440
2017-18	496	0	46	450
2018-19	480	64	14	402
2019-20	450	25	140	285
2020-21	418	12	150	256
2021-22	300	57	47	196
2022-23	338	53	179	106
2023-24	357	92	30	235
2024-25	351	112	39	200
Average	414	42	71	301

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Enrollment Trends at Sacred Heart Major Seminary

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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