Enrollment Trends at Sweet Briar

The student population at Sweet Briar College is 460 (457 undergraduate and 3 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 279 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at Sweet Briar is 99.35% which is decreased by 266 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 13 and it has been decreasing. All students have enrolled in on-campus classes (Sweet Briar College does not offer online degree/certificate program).

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 467 where 460 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

99.35% of total students is undergraduate students and 0.65% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 266 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 13 over past 10 years.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	739	723	28	695	16	0	16
2013-14	710 -29	703 -20	16 -12	687 -8	7 -9	0 0	7 -9
2014-15	700 -10	691 -12	24 8	667 -20	9 2	1 1	8 1
2015-16	320 -380	316 -375	17 -7	299 -368	4 -5	0 -1	4 -4
2016-17	376 56	365 49	7 -10	358 59	11 7	1 1	10 6
2017-18	323 -53	319 -46	6 -1	313 -45	4 -7	0 -1	4 -6
2018-19	337 14	336 17	9 3	327 14	1 -3	0 0	1 -3
2019-20	354 17	351 15	5 -4	346 19	3 2	0 0	3 2
2020-21	362 8	356 5	0 -5	356 10	6 3	0 0	6 3
2021-22	454 92	452 96	0 0	452 96	2 -4	0 0	2 -4
2022-23	460 6	457 5	0 0	457 5	3 1	0 0	3 1
Average	467	461	10	451	6	0	6

Sweet Briar College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 461 where 457 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 Sweet Briar College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	723	695	25	670	28	3	25
2013-14	703	680	12	668	23	4	19
2014-15	691	664	23	641	27	1	26
2015-16	316	310	16	294	6	1	5
2016-17	365	356	6	350	9	1	8
2017-18	319	314	6	308	5	0	5
2018-19	336	331	8	323	5	1	4
2019-20	351	350	5	345	1	0	1
2020-21	356	353	0	353	3	0	3
2021-22	452	448	0	448	4	0	4
2022-23	457	450	0	450	7	0	7
Average	461	461	9	441	461	1	10

Sweet Briar College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 6 where 3 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 Sweet Briar College since 2012.

Year	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	16	13	0	13	3	0	3
2013-14	7	7	0	7	0	0	0
2014-15	9	7	0	7	2	1	1
2015-16	4	2	0	2	2	0	2
2016-17	11	9	1	8	2	0	2
2017-18	4	3	0	3	1	0	1
2018-19	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
2019-20	3	3	0	3	0	0	0
2020-21	6	6	0	6	0	0	0
2021-22	2	2	0	2	0	0	0
2022-23	3	3	0	3	0	0	0
Average	6	6	0	5	6	0	1

Sweet Briar College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 68.26%. The percentage was 76.45% 10 years ago and Sweet Briar still has a high percentage of white students. 2.61% of enrolled students is Asian and 8.26% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Sweet Briar 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	11	22	60	38	2	565	12
2013-14	6	17	64	50	1	528	17
2014-15	9	18	71	56	0	487	26
2015-16	5	12	27	36	0	218	12
2016-17	2	9	34	36	1	265	15
2017-18	0	9	25	34	1	234	12
2018-19	0	7	30	26	1	245	10
2019-20	0	9	30	24	1	262	6
2020-21	0	10	38	15	1	261	4
2021-22	7	13	43	21	0	318	7
2022-23	4	12	38	21	0	314	6
Average	4	13	42	32	1	336	12

Sweet Briar College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

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Enrollment Trends at Sweet Briar

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes