Enrollment Trends at Benedictine

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,282 where 2,535 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

94.79% of total students is undergraduate students and 5.21% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 270 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 76 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.01 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Benedictine.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Benedictine 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	2,189	2,133	959	1,174	56	29	27
2016-17	2,312 123	2,245 112	1,026 67	1,219 45	67 11	39 10	28 1
2017-18	2,166 -146	2,085 -160	945 -81	1,140 -79	81 14	49 10	32 4
2018-19	2,124 -42	2,057 -28	979 34	1,078 -62	67 -14	44 -5	23 -9
2019-20	2,158 34	2,085 28	997 18	1,088 10	73 6	44	29 6
2020-21	2,217 59	2,124 39	1,038 41	1,086 -2	93 20	54 10	39 10
2021-22	2,287 70	2,202 78	1,076 38	1,126 40	85 -8	47 -7	38 -1
2022-23	2,362 75	2,289 87	1,120 44	1,169 43	73 -12	43 -4	30 -8
2023-24	2,465 103	2,391 102	1,172 52	1,219 50	74 1	41 -2	33 3
2024-25	2,535 70	2,403 12	1,199 27	1,204 -15	132 58	61 20	71 38
Average	2,282	2,201	1,051	1,150	80	45	35

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,201 where 2,403 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 Benedictine 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	2,133	1,857	853	1,004	276	106	170
2016-17	2,245	1,923	892	1,031	322	134	188
2017-18	2,085	1,821	838	983	264	107	157
2018-19	2,057	1,928	920	1,008	129	59	70
2019-20	2,085	1,937	932	1,005	148	65	83
2020-21	2,124	1,970	969	1,001	154	69	85
2021-22	2,202	2,060	1,012	1,048	142	64	78
2022-23	2,289	2,135	1,057	1,078	154	63	91
2023-24	2,391	2,214	1,101	1,113	177	71	106
2024-25	2,403	2,255	1,140	1,115	148	59	89
Average	2,201	2,201	971	1,039	2,201	80	112

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 80 where 132 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 Benedictine 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	56	37	24	13	19	5	14
2016-17	67	48	29	19	19	10	9
2017-18	81	55	42	13	26	7	19
2018-19	67	46	32	14	21	12	9
2019-20	73	19	14	5	54	30	24
2020-21	93	37	28	9	56	26	30
2021-22	85	67	36	31	18	11	7
2022-23	73	33	25	8	40	18	22
2023-24	74	22	11	11	52	30	22
2024-25	132	28	18	10	104	43	61
Average	80	80	26	13	80	19	22

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 74.83%. The percentage was 79.81% 10 years ago and Benedictine still has a high percentage of white students. 1.50% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.56% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 13.06% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 79.81% to 74.83%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.01% to 1.50%. Black student enrollment decreased from 2.83% to 2.56%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.12% to 13.06%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4208 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3582 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Benedictine 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	22	62	112	23	1,747	76
2016-17	7	24	69	144	9	1,797	7
2017-18	10	20	70	146	5	1,718	6
2018-19	11	23	68	162	7	1,681	98
2019-20	12	28	62	195	8	1,682	95
2020-21	9	30	64	218	6	1,712	94
2021-22	8	33	42	235	4	1,786	100
2022-23	6	39	71	260	6	1,823	71
2023-24	8	37	59	314	4	1,856	90
2024-25	7	38	65	331	3	1,897	91
Average	9	29	63	212	8	1,770	73