Enrollment Trends at West Virginia Wesleyan

The student population at West Virginia Wesleyan College is 951 (889 undergraduate and 62 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 443 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at West Virginia Wesleyan is 93.48% which is decreased by 426 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 17 and it has been decreasing. The female to male ratio is 1.11 to 1 which means that female students enrolled slightly more than male students.

21 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has decreased by -58.00% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 12 years is 1,316 where 951 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

93.48% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.52% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 426 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 17 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.11 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in West Virginia Wesleyan than male students.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,394	1,315	608	707	79	28	51
2013-14	1,469 75	1,367 52	642 34	725 18	102 23	35 7	67 16
2014-15	1,511 42	1,390 23	633 -9	757 32	121 19	31 -4	90 23
2015-16	1,518 7	1,389 -1	629 -4	760 3	129 8	29 -2	100 10
2016-17	1,542 24	1,396 7	631 2	765 5	146 17	37 8	109 9
2017-18	1,449 -93	1,320 -76	582 -49	738 -27	129 -17	32 -5	97 -12
2018-19	1,294 -155	1,180 -140	537 -45	643 -95	114 -15	27 -5	87 -10
2019-20	1,226 -68	1,131 -49	505 -32	626 -17	95 -19	23 -4	72 -15
2020-21	1,066 -160	979 -152	451 -54	528 -98	87 -8	22 -1	65 -7
2021-22	1,054 -12	982 3	456 5	526 -2	72 -15	17 -5	55 -10
2022-23	951 -103	889 -93	429 -27	460 -66	62 -10	21 4	41 -14
Average	1,316	1,213	555	658	103	27	76

West Virginia Wesleyan College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 12 years is 1,213 where 889 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 West Virginia Wesleyan College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	1,315	1,289	593	696	26	15	11
2013-14	1,367	1,345	628	717	22	14	8
2014-15	1,390	1,357	614	743	33	19	14
2015-16	1,389	1,363	614	749	26	15	11
2016-17	1,396	1,367	618	749	29	13	16
2017-18	1,320	1,289	567	722	31	15	16
2018-19	1,180	1,162	528	634	18	9	9
2019-20	1,131	1,118	499	619	13	6	7
2020-21	979	971	448	523	8	3	5
2021-22	982	970	451	519	12	5	7
2022-23	889	877	421	456	12	8	4
Average	1,213	1,213	544	648	1,213	11	10

West Virginia Wesleyan College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 12 years is 103 where 62 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 West Virginia Wesleyan College since 2012.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2012-13	79	64	24	40	15	4	11
2013-14	102	88	31	57	14	4	10
2014-15	121	105	30	75	16	1	15
2015-16	129	115	28	87	14	1	13
2016-17	146	134	34	100	12	3	9
2017-18	129	120	32	88	9	0	9
2018-19	114	104	27	77	10	0	10
2019-20	95	83	22	61	12	1	11
2020-21	87	81	21	60	6	1	5
2021-22	72	65	17	48	7	0	7
2022-23	62	48	19	29	14	2	12
Average	103	103	26	66	103	2	10

West Virginia Wesleyan College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 70.45%. The percentage was 78.98% 10 years ago and West Virginia Wesleyan still has a high percentage of white students. 1.05% of enrolled students is Asian and 13.46% is black students.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at West Virginia Wesleyan 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	3	4	151	26	3	1,101	23
2013-14	4	1	120	27	2	1,181	34
2014-15	5	3	122	27	3	1,205	43
2015-16	3	6	131	33	3	1,195	43
2016-17	5	2	112	35	2	1,196	53
2017-18	5	2	120	42	1	1,129	51
2018-19	4	4	122	38	0	984	50
2019-20	5	6	113	43	0	931	49
2020-21	5	6	121	44	0	784	41
2021-22	7	11	137	42	2	769	26
2022-23	8	10	128	46	2	670	29
Average	5	5	125	37	2	1,013	40

West Virginia Wesleyan College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

21 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 2% of total students. The number of online students has decreased -58.00% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at West Virginia Wesleyan College from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	1,511	50	157	1,304
2015-16	1,518	60	102	1,356
2016-17	1,542	6	172	1,364
2017-18	1,449	37	185	1,227
2018-19	1,294	38	327	929
2019-20	1,226	58	46	1,122
2020-21	1,066	1,066	0	0
2021-22	1,054	30	367	657
2022-23	951	21	257	673
Average	1,290	152	179	959

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