Enrollment Trends at AQ

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,533 where 1,157 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

94.04% of total students is undergraduate students and 5.96% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 697 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 40 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.14 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in AQ than male students.

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

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,894	1,785	714	1,071	109	27	82
2016-17	1,764 -130	1,654 -131	641 -73	1,013 -58	110 1	21 -6	89 7
2017-18	1,716 -48	1,551 -103	612 -29	939 -74	165 55	33 12	132 43
2018-19	1,758 42	1,578 27	650 38	928 -11	180 15	45 12	135 3
2019-20	1,600 -158	1,456 -122	620 -30	836 -92	144 -36	30 -15	114 -21
2020-21	1,517 -83	1,372 -84	571 -49	801 -35	145 1	30	115 1
2021-22	1,362 -155	1,238 -134	534 -37	704 -97	124 -21	37 7	87 -28
2022-23	1,265 -97	1,169 -69	514 -20	655 -49	96 -28	24 -13	72 -15
2023-24	1,295 30	1,209 40	507 -7	702 47	86 -10	29 5	57 -15
2024-25	1,157 -138	1,088 -121	516 9	572 -130	69 -17	24 -5	45 -12
Average	1,533	1,410	588	822	123	30	93

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,410 where 1,088 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 Aquinas College since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,785	1,538	593	945	247	121	126
2016-17	1,654	1,416	527	889	238	114	124
2017-18	1,551	1,317	515	802	234	97	137
2018-19	1,578	1,299	524	775	279	126	153
2019-20	1,456	1,196	514	682	260	106	154
2020-21	1,372	1,129	477	652	243	94	149
2021-22	1,238	1,059	466	593	179	68	111
2022-23	1,169	1,035	459	576	134	55	79
2023-24	1,209	1,135	478	657	74	29	45
2024-25	1,088	1,004	486	518	84	30	54
Average	1,410	1,410	504	709	1,410	84	113

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 123 where 69 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 Aquinas College since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	109	12	4	8	97	23	74
2016-17	110	30	9	21	80	12	68
2017-18	165	29	11	18	136	22	114
2018-19	180	34	14	20	146	31	115
2019-20	144	32	8	24	112	22	90
2020-21	145	51	15	36	94	15	79
2021-22	124	55	21	34	69	16	53
2022-23	96	50	16	34	46	8	38
2023-24	86	30	10	20	56	19	37
2024-25	69	35	13	22	34	11	23
Average	123	123	12	24	123	18	69

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 73.47%. The percentage was 81.05% 10 years ago and AQ still has a high percentage of white students. 1.64% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.85% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.25% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 81.05% to 73.47%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.27% to 1.64%. Black student enrollment decreased from 2.90% to 2.85%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.91% to 9.25%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4479 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3381 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Aquinas College over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

• Trends Table
• Interactive Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	7	24	55	112	0	1,535	46
2016-17	7	26	61	105	0	1,362	38
2017-18	6	26	63	114	1	1,310	40
2018-19	8	26	57	112	1	1,176	36
2019-20	8	24	69	126	2	1,063	28
2020-21	8	23	57	123	2	1,043	37
2021-22	5	25	50	105	2	949	38
2022-23	1	28	32	96	3	909	48
2023-24	4	25	31	104	2	970	61
2024-25	2	19	33	107	2	850	60
Average	6	25	51	110	2	1,117	43