Enrollment Trends at Bridgewater

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,658 where 1,448 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

97.17% of total students is undergraduate students and 2.83% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 427 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 41 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.91 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Bridgewater.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Bridgewater 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	1,834	1,834	864	970	0	0	0
2016-17	1,882 48	1,882 48	876 12	1,006 36	0	0	0
2017-18	1,889 7	1,882	858 -18	1,024 18	7 7	1 1	6 6
2018-19	1,857 -32	1,839 -43	818 -40	1,021 -3	18 11	7 6	11 5
2019-20	1,754 -103	1,713 -126	767 -51	946 -75	41 23	15 8	26 15
2020-21	1,597 -157	1,552 -161	706 -61	846 -100	45 4	19 4	26
2021-22	1,463 -134	1,427 -125	660 -46	767 -79	36 -9	13 -6	23 -3
2022-23	1,421 -42	1,385 -42	666 6	719 -48	36	10 -3	26 3
2023-24	1,436 15	1,391 6	708 42	683 -36	45 9	11 1	34 8
2024-25	1,448 12	1,407 16	741 33	666 -17	41 -4	16 5	25 -9
Average	1,658	1,631	766	865	27	9	18

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,631 where 1,407 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 Bridgewater 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	1,834	1,823	858	965	11	6	5
2016-17	1,882	1,876	873	1,003	6	3	3
2017-18	1,882	1,876	853	1,023	6	5	1
2018-19	1,839	1,832	816	1,016	7	2	5
2019-20	1,713	1,707	764	943	6	3	3
2020-21	1,552	1,539	700	839	13	6	7
2021-22	1,427	1,416	653	763	11	7	4
2022-23	1,385	1,380	664	716	5	2	3
2023-24	1,391	1,385	705	680	6	3	3
2024-25	1,407	1,397	735	662	10	6	4
Average	1,631	1,631	762	861	1,631	4	4

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 27 where 41 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 Bridgewater 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017-18	7	7	1	6	0	0	0
2018-19	18	18	7	11	0	0	0
2019-20	41	39	15	24	2	0	2
2020-21	45	41	19	22	4	0	4
2021-22	36	33	12	21	3	1	2
2022-23	36	33	9	24	3	1	2
2023-24	45	37	10	27	8	1	7
2024-25	41	37	16	21	4	0	4
Average	27	27	9	16	27	0	2

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 65.81%. The percentage was 73.45% 10 years ago and Bridgewater still has a high percentage of white students. 1.52% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.91% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 7.53% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 73.45% to 65.81%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.15% to 1.52%. Black student enrollment increased from 10.74% to 10.91%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 4.74% to 7.53%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5458 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.4442 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

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

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• 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	21	197	87	1	1,347	90
2016-17	5	23	248	105	1	1,285	105
2017-18	5	21	296	122	1	1,250	96
2018-19	6	24	308	128	3	1,191	102
2019-20	6	18	273	128	3	1,137	104
2020-21	3	19	244	125	4	1,021	103
2021-22	4	21	198	111	4	948	106
2022-23	1	18	165	104	3	952	92
2023-24	5	19	169	114	1	952	73
2024-25	5	22	158	109	1	953	82
Average	5	21	226	113	2	1,104	95