Enrollment Trends at Strayer University-District of Columbia

The student population at Strayer University-District of Columbia is 188 (156 undergraduate and 32 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,015 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Strayer University-District of Columbia is 82.98% which is decreased by 665 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 350 and it has been decreasing.

The female to male ratio is 2.69 to 1 which means that majority of population is on female students.

183 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -70.58% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 713 where 188 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

82.98% of total students is undergraduate students and 17.02% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 665 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 350 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.69 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Strayer University-District of Columbia than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Strayer University-District of Columbia since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,203	821	303	518	382	149	233
2016-17	1,127 -76	803 -18	277 -26	526 8	324 -58	118 -31	206 -27
2017-18	959 -168	691 -112	241 -36	450 -76	268 -56	105 -13	163 -43
2018-19	928 -31	720 29	250 9	470 20	208 -60	71 -34	137 -26
2019-20	815 -113	654 -66	193 -57	461 -9	161 -47	55 -16	106 -31
2020-21	745 -70	630 -24	165 -28	465 4	115 -46	39 -16	76 -30
2021-22	446 -299	368 -262	89 -76	279 -186	78 -37	27 -12	51 -25
2022-23	362 -84	315 -53	73 -16	242 -37	47 -31	14 -13	33 -18
2023-24	353 -9	310 -5	66 -7	244 2	43 -4	11 -3	32 -1
2024-25	188 -165	156 -154	46 -20	110 -134	32 -11	5 -6	27 -5
Average	713	547	170	377	166	59	106

Strayer University-District of Columbia Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 547 where 156 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 Strayer University-District of Columbia since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	821	120	59	61	701	244	457
2016-17	803	116	63	53	687	214	473
2017-18	691	107	63	44	584	178	406
2018-19	720	104	60	44	616	190	426
2019-20	654	77	41	36	577	152	425
2020-21	630	60	36	24	570	129	441
2021-22	368	28	17	11	340	72	268
2022-23	315	25	12	13	290	61	229
2023-24	310	25	16	9	285	50	235
2024-25	156	19	10	9	137	36	101
Average	547	547	38	30	547	133	346

Strayer University-District of Columbia Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 166 where 32 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 Strayer University-District of Columbia since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	382	94	45	49	288	104	184
2016-17	324	85	32	53	239	86	153
2017-18	268	67	34	33	201	71	130
2018-19	208	49	23	26	159	48	111
2019-20	161	33	16	17	128	39	89
2020-21	115	24	13	11	91	26	65
2021-22	78	16	8	8	62	19	43
2022-23	47	15	6	9	32	8	24
2023-24	43	11	5	6	32	6	26
2024-25	32	12	2	10	20	3	17
Average	166	166	18	22	166	41	84

Strayer University-District of Columbia Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 2.66% and the percentage of black students is 81.91% at Strayer University-District of Columbia. 1.06% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 7.98% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 4.41% to 2.66%. Asian enrollment declined from 2.00% to 1.06%. Black student enrollment increased from 78.39% to 81.91%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 6.23% to 7.98%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.3210 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.3787 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Strayer University-District of Columbia 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	5	24	943	75	0	53	29
2016-17	6	9	894	83	1	41	26
2017-18	7	10	765	62	0	39	28
2018-19	7	19	741	64	0	29	36
2019-20	3	16	659	55	2	30	29
2020-21	1	28	564	56	1	50	30
2021-22	1	6	358	32	0	25	16
2022-23	1	2	295	24	0	28	10
2023-24	1	2	282	23	1	26	13
2024-25	2	2	154	15	0	5	5
Average	3	12	566	49	1	33	22

Strayer University-District of Columbia Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

183 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 98% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -70.58% since 2015. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Strayer University-District of Columbia from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	1,203	622	222	359
2016-17	1,127	675	178	274
2017-18	959	667	158	134
2018-19	928	673	118	137
2019-20	815	664	101	50
2020-21	745	745	0	0
2021-22	446	446	0	0
2022-23	362	362	0	0
2023-24	353	350	3	0
2024-25	188	183	5	0
Average	713	539	79	95

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Enrollment Trends at Strayer University-District of Columbia

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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