Enrollment Trends at South Carolina State

The student population at South Carolina State University is 2,649 (2,374 undergraduate and 275 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,158 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at South Carolina State is 89.62% which is decreased by 891 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 267 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.26 to 1 which means that female students enrolled slightly more than male students.

160 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 209.95% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 2,942 where 2,649 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

89.62% of total students is undergraduate students and 10.38% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 891 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 267 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.26 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in South Carolina State than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	3,807	3,265	1,510	1,755	542	111	431
2013-14	3,463 -344	2,937 -328	1,416 -94	1,521 -234	526 -16	117 6	409 -22
2014-15	3,331 -132	2,791 -146	1,355 -61	1,436 -85	540 14	122 5	418 9
2015-16	3,054 -277	2,650 -141	1,306 -49	1,344 -92	404 -136	101 -21	303 -115
2016-17	2,905 -149	2,529 -121	1,276 -30	1,253 -91	376 -28	84 -17	292 -11
2017-18	2,942 37	2,524 -5	1,322 46	1,202 -51	418 42	105 21	313 21
2018-19	3,022 80	2,430 -94	1,219 -103	1,211 9	592 174	139 34	453 140
2019-20	2,479 -543	2,155 -275	1,016 -203	1,139 -72	324 -268	92 -47	232 -221
2020-21	2,339 -140	2,020 -135	875 -141	1,145 6	319 -5	64 -28	255 23
2021-22	2,374 35	2,074 54	927 52	1,147 2	300 -19	73 9	227 -28
2022-23	2,649 275	2,374 300	1,094 167	1,280 133	275 -25	80 7	195 -32
Average	2,942	2,523	1,211	1,312	420	99	321

South Carolina State University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 2,523 where 2,374 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 South Carolina State University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	3,265	3,006	1,407	1,599	259	103	156
2013-14	2,937	2,714	1,314	1,400	223	102	121
2014-15	2,791	2,581	1,253	1,328	210	102	108
2015-16	2,650	2,303	1,137	1,166	347	169	178
2016-17	2,529	2,282	1,146	1,136	247	130	117
2017-18	2,524	2,281	1,171	1,110	243	151	92
2018-19	2,430	2,152	1,069	1,083	278	150	128
2019-20	2,155	1,958	913	1,045	197	103	94
2020-21	2,020	1,781	758	1,023	239	117	122
2021-22	2,074	1,833	805	1,028	241	122	119
2022-23	2,374	2,114	965	1,149	260	129	131
Average	2,523	2,523	1,085	1,188	2,523	125	124

South Carolina State University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 420 where 275 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 South Carolina State University since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	542	229	47	182	313	64	249
2013-14	526	231	53	178	295	64	231
2014-15	540	220	66	154	320	56	264
2015-16	404	200	50	150	204	51	153
2016-17	376	211	47	164	165	37	128
2017-18	418	240	47	193	178	58	120
2018-19	592	250	60	190	342	79	263
2019-20	324	198	46	152	126	46	80
2020-21	319	195	38	157	124	26	98
2021-22	300	195	49	146	105	24	81
2022-23	275	171	48	123	104	32	72
Average	420	420	50	163	420	49	158

South Carolina State University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 2.72% and the percentage of black students is 89.47% at South Carolina State University. 0.23% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at South Carolina State 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	5	25	3,576	28	1	146	3
2013-14	3	23	3,232	19	1	142	2
2014-15	4	22	3,128	18	1	126	1
2015-16	6	19	2,745	13	0	249	11
2016-17	7	14	2,745	14	1	107	7
2017-18	6	12	2,749	9	0	101	5
2018-19	7	9	2,805	7	1	128	3
2019-20	4	6	2,323	10	1	83	6
2020-21	6	7	2,169	10	1	82	29
2021-22	7	7	2,207	13	2	73	25
2022-23	9	6	2,370	9	3	72	33
Average	6	14	2,732	14	1	119	11

South Carolina State University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

160 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 6% of total students. The number of online students has increased 209.95% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at South Carolina State University from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	3,331	0	402	2,929
2015-16	3,054	0	573	2,481
2016-17	2,905	0	721	2,184
2017-18	2,942	14	667	2,261
2018-19	3,022	122	915	1,985
2019-20	2,479	12	935	1,532
2020-21	2,339	123	1,055	1,161
2021-22	2,374	138	999	1,237
2022-23	2,649	160	1,246	1,243
Average	2,788	63	835	1,890

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