Enrollment Trends at AMU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,210 where 1,423 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

91.43% of total students is undergraduate students and 8.57% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 231 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 82 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.06 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in AMU.

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

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,110	1,070	528	542	40	26	14
2016-17	1,100 -10	1,056 -14	513 -15	543 1	44 4	33 7	11 -3
2017-18	1,113 13	1,072 16	526 13	546 3	41 -3	29 -4	12 1
2018-19	1,122 9	1,087 15	520 -6	567 21	35 -6	22 -7	13 1
2019-20	1,177 55	1,129 42	537 17	592 25	48 13	26 4	22 9
2020-21	1,108 -69	1,071 -58	472 -65	599 7	37 -11	21 -5	16 -6
2021-22	1,302 194	1,259 188	568 96	691 92	43 6	30 9	13 -3
2022-23	1,310 8	1,247 -12	564 -4	683 -8	63 20	44 14	19 6
2023-24	1,335 25	1,250 3	563 -1	687 4	85 22	63 19	22 3
2024-25	1,423 88	1,301 51	610 47	691 4	122 37	80 17	42 20
Average	1,210	1,154	540	614	56	37	18

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,154 where 1,301 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 Ave Maria University 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	1,070	1,046	516	530	24	12	12
2016-17	1,056	1,032	501	531	24	12	12
2017-18	1,072	1,035	513	522	37	13	24
2018-19	1,087	1,076	514	562	11	6	5
2019-20	1,129	1,087	517	570	42	20	22
2020-21	1,071	1,048	461	587	23	11	12
2021-22	1,259	1,234	552	682	25	16	9
2022-23	1,247	1,224	555	669	23	9	14
2023-24	1,250	1,220	550	670	30	13	17
2024-25	1,301	1,286	602	684	15	8	7
Average	1,154	1,154	528	601	1,154	12	13

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 56 where 122 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 Ave Maria University 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	40	36	25	11	4	1	3
2016-17	44	42	32	10	2	1	1
2017-18	41	40	28	12	1	1	0
2018-19	35	34	21	13	1	1	0
2019-20	48	43	25	18	5	1	4
2020-21	37	36	21	15	1	0	1
2021-22	43	34	23	11	9	7	2
2022-23	63	42	29	13	21	15	6
2023-24	85	48	35	13	37	28	9
2024-25	122	86	62	24	36	18	18
Average	56	56	30	14	56	7	4

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 68.94%. The percentage was 62.07% 10 years ago and AMU still has a high percentage of white students. 4.50% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.95% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 15.18% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 62.07% to 68.94%. Asian enrollment grew from 2.43% to 4.50%. Black student enrollment decreased from 5.14% to 2.95%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 14.59% to 15.18%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4987 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.5901 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Ave Maria University 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	6	27	57	162	0	689	0
2016-17	3	30	51	173	0	671	0
2017-18	2	23	57	161	0	704	0
2018-19	5	28	58	157	0	709	0
2019-20	5	33	52	162	0	740	0
2020-21	9	42	60	160	0	755	0
2021-22	11	45	51	198	0	891	0
2022-23	14	55	52	163	0	926	0
2023-24	9	51	46	215	0	930	0
2024-25	12	64	42	216	1	981	0
Average	8	40	53	177	0	800	0