Enrollment Trends at Bennington

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 845 where 927 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

85.98% of total students is undergraduate students and 14.02% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 93 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 33 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.75 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Bennington than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Bennington 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	801	704	249	455	97	33	64
2016-17	805 4	711 7	253 4	458 3	94 -3	35 2	59 -5
2017-18	851 46	775 64	274 21	501 43	76 -18	24 -11	52 -7
2018-19	811 -40	735 -40	263 -11	472 -29	76	22 -2	54 2
2019-20	826 15	729 -6	253 -10	476 4	97 21	25 3	72 18
2020-21	799 -27	697 -32	238 -15	459 -17	102 5	20 -5	82 10
2021-22	884 85	771 74	274 36	497 38	113 11	23 3	90 8
2022-23	880 -4	777 6	258 -16	519 22	103 -10	19 -4	84 -6
2023-24	867 -13	776 -1	249 -9	527 8	91 -12	21 2	70 -14
2024-25	927 60	797 21	214 -35	583 56	130 39	33 12	97 27
Average	845	747	253	495	98	26	72

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 747 where 797 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 Bennington 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	704	680	235	445	24	14	10
2016-17	711	682	226	456	29	27	2
2017-18	775	724	240	484	51	34	17
2018-19	735	704	235	469	31	28	3
2019-20	729	686	226	460	43	27	16
2020-21	697	606	197	409	91	41	50
2021-22	771	699	231	468	72	43	29
2022-23	777	712	218	494	65	40	25
2023-24	776	728	209	519	48	40	8
2024-25	797	765	188	577	32	26	6
Average	747	747	221	478	747	32	17

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 98 where 130 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 Bennington 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	97	96	33	63	1	0	1
2016-17	94	94	35	59	0	0	0
2017-18	76	76	24	52	0	0	0
2018-19	76	76	22	54	0	0	0
2019-20	97	97	25	72	0	0	0
2020-21	102	102	20	82	0	0	0
2021-22	113	113	23	90	0	0	0
2022-23	103	103	19	84	0	0	0
2023-24	91	91	21	70	0	0	0
2024-25	130	109	27	82	21	6	15
Average	98	98	25	71	98	1	2

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 64.08%. The percentage was 65.92% 10 years ago and Bennington still has a high percentage of white students. 2.27% of enrolled students is Asian and 4.31% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 7.98% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 65.92% to 64.08%. Asian enrollment declined from 3.12% to 2.27%. Black student enrollment increased from 1.62% to 4.31%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.74% to 7.98%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5776 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5589 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bennington 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	10	25	13	46	1	528	35
2016-17	9	20	21	69	0	492	36
2017-18	3	19	32	78	1	491	34
2018-19	1	14	31	75	1	490	26
2019-20	2	12	27	80	1	493	28
2020-21	1	13	26	85	1	487	25
2021-22	4	21	26	93	0	534	35
2022-23	5	14	25	84	0	557	37
2023-24	3	16	30	87	0	550	42
2024-25	3	21	40	74	0	594	51
Average	4	18	27	77	1	522	35