Enrollment Trends at Whittier

The student population at Whittier College is 795 (769 undergraduate and 26 graduate students) . The number of students has decreased by 1,392 (63.65%) over the past decade.

Class Level: The percentage of undergraduate students at Whittier is 96.73% which is decreased by 879 over last 10 years. The graduate student population decreased by 513 and it has been decreasing.
Gender Breakdown: In 2025, there were 73 male students for every 100 female students, down from 75 in 2015.
All students have enrolled in on-campus classes (Whittier College does not offer online degree/certificate program).

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,574 where 795 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment decreased every year from 2016 to 2025, falling from 2,187 to 795 students, a loss of 1,392 (63.6%).

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,187	1,648	724	924	539	211	328
2016-17	2,072 -115	1,614 -34	690 -34	924	458 -81	182 -29	276 -52
2017-18	1,987 -85	1,681 67	728 38	953 29	306 -152	110 -72	196 -80
2018-19	1,852 -135	1,732 51	721 -7	1,011 58	120 -186	41 -69	79 -117
2019-20	1,841 -11	1,776 44	774 53	1,002 -9	65 -55	24 -17	41 -38
2020-21	1,564 -277	1,490 -286	640 -134	850 -152	74 9	26 2	48 7
2021-22	1,387 -177	1,325 -165	579 -61	746 -104	62 -12	16 -10	46 -2
2022-23	1,192 -195	1,131 -194	502 -77	629 -117	61 -1	19 3	42 -4
2023-24	859 -333	813 -318	330 -172	483 -146	46 -15	17 -2	29 -13
2024-25	795 -64	769 -44	328 -2	441 -42	26 -20	8 -9	18 -11
Average	1,574	1,398	602	796	176	65	110

Whittier College Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,398 where 769 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 Whittier College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,648	1,618	710	908	30	14	16
2016-17	1,614	1,579	676	903	35	14	21
2017-18	1,681	1,640	713	927	41	15	26
2018-19	1,732	1,699	709	990	33	12	21
2019-20	1,776	1,748	762	986	28	12	16
2020-21	1,490	1,455	620	835	35	20	15
2021-22	1,325	1,276	548	728	49	31	18
2022-23	1,131	1,097	488	609	34	14	20
2023-24	813	787	320	467	26	10	16
2024-25	769	747	322	425	22	6	16
Average	1,398	1,398	587	778	1,398	15	19

Whittier College Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 176 where 26 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 Whittier College since 2015.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	539	348	140	208	191	71	120
2016-17	458	306	135	171	152	47	105
2017-18	306	180	67	113	126	43	83
2018-19	120	80	27	53	40	14	26
2019-20	65	15	4	11	50	20	30
2020-21	74	40	14	26	34	12	22
2021-22	62	33	7	26	29	9	20
2022-23	61	23	6	17	38	13	25
2023-24	46	19	7	12	27	10	17
2024-25	26	15	4	11	11	4	7
Average	176	176	41	65	176	24	46

Whittier College Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 24.03% and the percentage of black students is 5.53% at Whittier College. 5.53% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 40.13% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 34.80% to 24.03%. Asian enrollment declined from 10.24% to 5.53%. Black student enrollment increased from 5.35% to 5.53%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 40.92% to 40.13%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7730 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6967 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Whittier College 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	11	224	117	895	5	761	82
2016-17	7	161	97	913	8	684	113
2017-18	7	136	108	955	9	556	129
2018-19	9	127	87	937	6	481	127
2019-20	7	128	89	942	5	458	131
2020-21	3	105	71	847	4	358	108
2021-22	3	76	56	595	6	286	57
2022-23	0	79	58	529	5	312	76
2023-24	0	45	31	428	2	199	56
2024-25	11	44	44	319	5	191	35
Average	6	113	76	736	6	429	91

Whittier College Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

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Enrollment Trends at Whittier

Student Population Changes

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

Graduate Enrollment Changes

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

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