Enrollment Trends at SC

The student population at Sterling College is 706 (682 undergraduate and 24 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 53 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at SC is 96.60% which is increased by 29 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 24 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 0.68 to 1 which means that male students enrolled more than female students.

99 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 421.05% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 685 where 706 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

96.60% of total students is undergraduate students and 3.40% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 29 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 24 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.68 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in SC than female students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	653	653	358	295	0	0	0
2013-14	690 37	690 37	376 18	314 19	0 0	0 0	0 0
2014-15	720 30	720 30	380 4	340 26	0 0	0 0	0 0
2015-16	704 -16	704 -16	365 -15	339 -1	0 0	0 0	0 0
2016-17	678 -26	678 -26	362 -3	316 -23	0 0	0 0	0 0
2017-18	697 19	697 19	408 46	289 -27	0 0	0 0	0 0
2018-19	651 -46	648 -49	371 -37	277 -12	3 3	2 2	1 1
2019-20	653 2	643 -5	373 2	270 -7	10 7	6 4	4 3
2020-21	678 25	665 22	386 13	279 9	13 3	4 -2	9 5
2021-22	700 22	686 21	405 19	281 2	14 1	2 -2	12 3
2022-23	706 6	682 -4	409 4	273 -8	24 10	10 8	14 2
Average	685	679	381	298	6	2	4

Sterling College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 679 where 682 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 Sterling College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	653	578	321	257	75	37	38
2013-14	690	595	336	259	95	40	55
2014-15	720	657	359	298	63	21	42
2015-16	704	610	338	272	94	27	67
2016-17	678	587	317	270	91	45	46
2017-18	697	599	367	232	98	41	57
2018-19	648	556	331	225	92	40	52
2019-20	643	527	312	215	116	61	55
2020-21	665	529	316	213	136	70	66
2021-22	686	548	342	206	138	63	75
2022-23	682	509	325	184	173	84	89
Average	679	679	333	239	679	48	58

Sterling College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 6 where 24 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 Sterling College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2013-14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2014-15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2015-16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017-18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018-19	3	3	2	1	0	0	0
2019-20	10	7	4	3	3	2	1
2020-21	13	13	4	9	0	0	0
2021-22	14	14	2	12	0	0	0
2022-23	24	18	6	12	6	4	2
Average	6	6	2	3	6	1	0

Sterling College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 61.90%. The percentage was 75.80% 10 years ago and SC still has a high percentage of white students. 0.57% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.48% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Sterling College 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	13	0	62	42	10	495	0
2013-14	9	0	60	65	8	496	0
2014-15	18	0	82	68	11	493	0
2015-16	16	10	73	97	0	490	0
2016-17	23	7	74	81	0	491	0
2017-18	21	17	119	90	0	447	0
2018-19	15	12	106	107	0	393	7
2019-20	12	8	92	90	0	399	22
2020-21	10	6	92	74	2	407	37
2021-22	8	5	88	82	2	408	42
2022-23	3	4	74	47	1	437	60
Average	13	6	84	77	3	451	15

Sterling College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

99 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 14% of total students. The number of online students has increased 421.05% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Sterling College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	720	19	0	701
2015-16	704	45	0	659
2016-17	678	34	0	644
2017-18	697	23	0	674
2018-19	651	24	0	627
2019-20	653	71	20	562
2020-21	678	91	16	571
2021-22	700	88	67	545
2022-23	706	99	44	563
Average	687	55	16	616

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