Enrollment Trends at South University-Columbia

The student population at South University-Columbia is 510 (420 undergraduate and 90 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,077 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at South University-Columbia is 82.35% which is decreased by 686 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 391 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 5.38 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

194 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -79.89% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,096 where 510 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

82.35% of total students is undergraduate students and 17.65% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 686 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 391 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 5.38 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in South University-Columbia than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,587	1,106	228	878	481	107	374
2013-14	1,627 40	1,167 61	236 8	931 53	460 -21	94 -13	366 -8
2014-15	1,464 -163	1,022 -145	213 -23	809 -122	442 -18	109 15	333 -33
2015-16	1,328 -136	929 -93	207 -6	722 -87	399 -43	105 -4	294 -39
2016-17	1,270 -58	885 -44	193 -14	692 -30	385 -14	103 -2	282 -12
2017-18	1,132 -138	806 -79	172 -21	634 -58	326 -59	67 -36	259 -23
2018-19	983 -149	675 -131	134 -38	541 -93	308 -18	70 3	238 -21
2019-20	797 -186	532 -143	89 -45	443 -98	265 -43	47 -23	218 -20
2020-21	732 -65	518 -14	89 0	429 -14	214 -51	48 1	166 -52
2021-22	625 -107	486 -32	69 -20	417 -12	139 -75	37 -11	102 -64
2022-23	510 -115	420 -66	61 -8	359 -58	90 -49	19 -18	71 -31
Average	1,096	777	154	623	319	73	246

South University-Columbia Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 777 where 420 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 University-Columbia since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,106	789	174	615	317	54	263
2013-14	1,167	673	147	526	494	89	405
2014-15	1,022	536	142	394	486	71	415
2015-16	929	601	142	459	328	65	263
2016-17	885	506	127	379	379	66	313
2017-18	806	556	125	431	250	47	203
2018-19	675	492	102	390	183	32	151
2019-20	532	383	57	326	149	32	117
2020-21	518	349	60	289	169	29	140
2021-22	486	294	46	248	192	23	169
2022-23	420	322	47	275	98	14	84
Average	777	777	106	394	777	47	229

South University-Columbia Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 319 where 90 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 University-Columbia since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	481	330	86	244	151	21	130
2013-14	460	215	58	157	245	36	209
2014-15	442	190	58	132	252	51	201
2015-16	399	119	33	86	280	72	208
2016-17	385	162	53	109	223	50	173
2017-18	326	135	32	103	191	35	156
2018-19	308	167	40	127	141	30	111
2019-20	265	141	22	119	124	25	99
2020-21	214	170	37	133	44	11	33
2021-22	139	94	25	69	45	12	33
2022-23	90	73	17	56	17	2	15
Average	319	319	42	121	319	31	124

South University-Columbia Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 18.82% and the percentage of black students is 68.43% at South University-Columbia. 0.78% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at South University-Columbia 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	39	1,017	62	4	345	36
2013-14	16	42	1,051	65	8	399	1
2014-15	17	46	901	63	8	380	0
2015-16	15	40	805	52	2	367	0
2016-17	15	35	809	44	5	322	0
2017-18	15	31	734	37	3	287	0
2018-19	11	21	648	39	4	241	0
2019-20	3	15	527	41	4	193	2
2020-21	2	15	500	35	3	168	2
2021-22	2	10	425	32	2	124	16
2022-23	2	4	349	26	2	96	13
Average	9	27	706	45	4	266	6

South University-Columbia Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

194 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 38% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -79.89% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at South University-Columbia from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,464	0	532	932
2015-16	1,328	0	464	864
2016-17	1,270	0	564	706
2017-18	1,132	0	476	656
2018-19	983	0	469	514
2019-20	797	0	382	415
2020-21	732	215	124	393
2021-22	625	165	130	330
2022-23	510	194	107	209
Average	982	64	361	558

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