Enrollment Trends at Tusculum

The student population at Tusculum University is 1,103 (940 undergraduate and 163 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 706 (39.03%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Tusculum is 85.22% which is decreased by 679 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 27 and it has been decreasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 103 male students for every 100 female students, up from 78 in 2015.
56 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -28.21% since 2015.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,559 where 1,103 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment decreased every year from 2016 to 2025, falling from 1,809 to 1,103 students, a loss of 706 (39%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Tusculum University since 2015.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,809	1,619	716	903	190	75	115
2016-17	1,796 -13	1,585 -34	750 34	835 -68	211 21	69 -6	142 27
2017-18	1,767 -29	1,488 -97	723 -27	765 -70	279 68	89 20	190 48
2018-19	1,735 -32	1,407 -81	661 -62	746 -19	328 49	103 14	225 35
2019-20	1,717 -18	1,388 -19	624 -37	764 18	329 1	117 14	212 -13
2020-21	1,664 -53	1,353 -35	575 -49	778 14	311 -18	106 -11	205 -7
2021-22	1,494 -170	1,234 -119	568 -7	666 -112	260 -51	92 -14	168 -37
2022-23	1,303 -191	1,111 -123	545 -23	566 -100	192 -68	79 -13	113 -55
2023-24	1,200 -103	1,022 -89	512 -33	510 -56	178 -14	92 13	86 -27
2024-25	1,103 -97	940 -82	487 -25	453 -57	163 -15	73 -19	90 4
Average	1,559	1,315	616	699	244	90	155

Tusculum University Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,315 where 940 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 Tusculum University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,619	1,505	674	831	114	42	72
2016-17	1,585	1,417	696	721	168	54	114
2017-18	1,488	1,376	688	688	112	35	77
2018-19	1,407	1,223	588	635	184	73	111
2019-20	1,388	1,263	589	674	125	35	90
2020-21	1,353	1,090	493	597	263	82	181
2021-22	1,234	979	476	503	255	92	163
2022-23	1,111	888	469	419	223	76	147
2023-24	1,022	827	450	377	195	62	133
2024-25	940	736	417	319	204	70	134
Average	1,315	1,315	554	576	1,315	62	122

Tusculum University Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 244 where 163 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 Tusculum University since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	190	109	44	65	81	31	50
2016-17	211	175	53	122	36	16	20
2017-18	279	226	69	157	53	20	33
2018-19	328	249	79	170	79	24	55
2019-20	329	244	80	164	85	37	48
2020-21	311	225	75	150	86	31	55
2021-22	260	190	60	130	70	32	38
2022-23	192	138	62	76	54	17	37
2023-24	178	128	72	56	50	20	30
2024-25	163	124	56	68	39	17	22
Average	244	244	65	116	244	25	39

Tusculum University Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.49%. The percentage was 75.12% 10 years ago and Tusculum still has a high percentage of white students. 0.63% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.51% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.08% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 75.12% to 55.49%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.22% to 0.63%. Black student enrollment decreased from 12.71% to 11.51%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.49% to 5.08%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6762 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4186 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Tusculum University 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	12	4	230	45	3	1,359	25
2016-17	9	9	246	53	1	1,321	28
2017-18	9	7	263	53	1	1,287	28
2018-19	10	7	222	52	3	1,268	20
2019-20	8	7	206	65	2	1,203	16
2020-21	8	6	153	46	3	1,128	22
2021-22	6	7	109	53	2	814	17
2022-23	5	3	73	37	1	515	15
2023-24	4	7	182	50	2	702	25
2024-25	4	7	127	56	0	612	4
Average	8	6	181	51	2	1,021	20

Tusculum University Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

56 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2024-2025, which is 5% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -28.21% since 2015. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at Tusculum University from 2015 to 2025.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2015-16	1,809	78	311	1,420
2016-17	1,796	136	601	1,059
2017-18	1,767	218	799	750
2018-19	1,735	509	485	741
2019-20	1,717	492	472	753
2020-21	1,664	501	807	356
2021-22	1,494	442	747	305
2022-23	1,303	113	176	1,014
2023-24	1,200	94	255	851
2024-25	1,103	56	220	827
Average	1,559	264	487	808

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Enrollment Trends at Tusculum

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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