Enrollment Trends at SFC

The student population at St. Francis College is 4,567 (1,719 undergraduate and 2,848 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 1,895 (70.92%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at SFC is 37.64% which is decreased by 879 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 2,774 and it has been increasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 127 male students for every 100 female students, up from 73 in 2015.
53 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 562.50% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,869 where 4,567 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 6 year-over-year increases and 3 decreases. It peaked at 4,567 students in 2025 and was lowest at 2,362 in 2018. Overall, enrollment rose from 2,672 to 4,567 students, a net gain of 1,895 (70.9%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at St. Francis College since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,672	2,598	1,096	1,502	74	31	43
2016-17	2,642 -30	2,563 -35	1,059 -37	1,504 2	79 5	30 -1	49 6
2017-18	2,362 -280	2,288 -275	928 -131	1,360 -144	74 -5	37 7	37 -12
2018-19	2,413 51	2,323 35	913 -15	1,410 50	90 16	39 2	51 14
2019-20	2,596 183	2,507 184	967 54	1,540 130	89 -1	44 5	45 -6
2020-21	2,735 139	2,646 139	988 21	1,658 118	89	43 -1	46 1
2021-22	2,489 -246	2,372 -274	845 -143	1,527 -131	117 28	64 21	53 7
2022-23	2,661 172	2,276 -96	861 16	1,415 -112	385 268	265 201	120 67
2023-24	3,552 891	1,934 -342	647 -214	1,287 -128	1,618 1,233	1,227 962	391 271
2024-25	4,567 1,015	1,719 -215	554 -93	1,165 -122	2,848 1,230	1,998 771	850 459
Average	2,869	2,323	886	1,437	546	378	169

St. Francis College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,323 where 1,719 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 St. Francis College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,598	2,393	1,009	1,384	205	87	118
2016-17	2,563	2,343	980	1,363	220	79	141
2017-18	2,288	2,097	848	1,249	191	80	111
2018-19	2,323	2,195	863	1,332	128	50	78
2019-20	2,507	2,374	920	1,454	133	47	86
2020-21	2,646	2,517	940	1,577	129	48	81
2021-22	2,372	2,263	791	1,472	109	54	55
2022-23	2,276	2,147	807	1,340	129	54	75
2023-24	1,934	1,839	608	1,231	95	39	56
2024-25	1,719	1,646	520	1,126	73	34	39
Average	2,323	2,323	829	1,353	2,323	57	84

St. Francis College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 546 where 2,848 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 St. Francis College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	74	41	12	29	33	19	14
2016-17	79	49	15	34	30	15	15
2017-18	74	50	24	26	24	13	11
2018-19	90	44	16	28	46	23	23
2019-20	89	44	19	25	45	25	20
2020-21	89	55	25	30	34	18	16
2021-22	117	59	32	27	58	32	26
2022-23	385	364	255	109	21	10	11
2023-24	1,618	1,581	1,205	376	37	22	15
2024-25	2,848	2,752	1,932	820	96	66	30
Average	546	546	354	150	546	24	18

St. Francis College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 6.55% and the percentage of black students is 10.75% at St. Francis College. 0.99% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 11.71% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 39.60% to 6.55%. Asian enrollment declined from 4.19% to 0.99%. Black student enrollment decreased from 18.94% to 10.75%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 19.54% to 11.71%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.9701 which indicates that highly diverse. This increased from 0.7669 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at St. Francis College 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	13	112	506	522	23	1,058	57
2016-17	14	114	488	541	28	1,056	70
2017-18	17	107	433	503	27	930	68
2018-19	13	107	455	568	26	875	70
2019-20	10	125	560	675	40	782	86
2020-21	29	118	649	776	24	703	82
2021-22	35	97	567	683	14	573	59
2022-23	41	79	582	641	4	489	49
2023-24	64	53	527	628	1	366	42
2024-25	57	45	491	535	0	299	36
Average	29	96	526	607	19	713	62

St. Francis College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

53 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 1% of total students. The number of online students has increased 562.50% since 2016. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at St. Francis College from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	2,672	0	639	2,033
2016-17	2,642	8	249	2,385
2017-18	2,362	5	452	1,905
2018-19	2,413	2	565	1,846
2019-20	2,596	58	1,012	1,526
2020-21	2,735	2,735	0	0
2021-22	2,489	186	1,848	455
2022-23	2,661	59	2,602	0
2023-24	3,552	2,248	1,279	25
2024-25	4,567	53	4,507	7
Average	2,869	535	1,315	1,018

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Enrollment Trends at SFC

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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