Enrollment Trends at Canisius

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 3,038 where 2,451 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

70.34% of total students is undergraduate students and 29.66% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 947 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 502 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.10 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Canisius.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Canisius 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	3,900	2,671	1,242	1,429	1,229	482	747
2016-17	3,734 -166	2,595 -76	1,255 13	1,340 -89	1,139 -90	439 -43	700 -47
2017-18	3,464 -270	2,398 -197	1,205 -50	1,193 -147	1,066 -73	400 -39	666 -34
2018-19	3,244 -220	2,256 -142	1,173 -32	1,083 -110	988 -78	403 3	585 -81
2019-20	3,102 -142	2,213 -43	1,147 -26	1,066 -17	889 -99	365 -38	524 -61
2020-21	2,820 -282	1,980 -233	1,006 -141	974 -92	840 -49	338 -27	502 -22
2021-22	2,630 -190	1,866 -114	912 -94	954 -20	764 -76	323 -15	441 -61
2022-23	2,492 -138	1,788 -78	900 -12	888 -66	704 -60	283 -40	421 -20
2023-24	2,545 53	1,798 10	912 12	886 -2	747 43	311 28	436 15
2024-25	2,451 -94	1,724 -74	851 -61	873 -13	727 -20	314 3	413 -23
Average	3,038	2,129	1,060	1,069	909	366	544

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,129 where 1,724 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 Canisius 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	2,671	2,538	1,160	1,378	133	82	51
2016-17	2,595	2,474	1,180	1,294	121	75	46
2017-18	2,398	2,303	1,148	1,155	95	57	38
2018-19	2,256	2,166	1,115	1,051	90	58	32
2019-20	2,213	2,112	1,075	1,037	101	72	29
2020-21	1,980	1,915	969	946	65	37	28
2021-22	1,866	1,783	870	913	83	42	41
2022-23	1,788	1,723	860	863	65	40	25
2023-24	1,798	1,731	871	860	67	41	26
2024-25	1,724	1,661	813	848	63	38	25
Average	2,129	2,129	1,006	1,035	2,129	54	34

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 909 where 727 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 Canisius 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	1,229	500	192	308	729	290	439
2016-17	1,139	485	186	299	654	253	401
2017-18	1,066	492	184	308	574	216	358
2018-19	988	474	186	288	514	217	297
2019-20	889	394	168	226	495	197	298
2020-21	840	382	173	209	458	165	293
2021-22	764	409	176	233	355	147	208
2022-23	704	380	159	221	324	124	200
2023-24	747	456	193	263	291	118	173
2024-25	727	431	203	228	296	111	185
Average	909	909	182	258	909	184	285

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 63.93%. The percentage was 71.82% 10 years ago and Canisius still has a high percentage of white students. 3.18% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.79% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.67% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 71.82% to 63.93%. Asian enrollment grew from 2.10% to 3.18%. Black student enrollment increased from 7.21% to 11.79%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.36% to 5.67%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5723 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4755 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Canisius 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	9	82	281	209	3	2,801	52
2016-17	12	78	284	199	5	2,594	55
2017-18	12	69	278	179	8	2,431	56
2018-19	8	75	280	154	4	2,293	70
2019-20	8	79	269	179	4	2,177	74
2020-21	10	70	239	172	3	2,032	67
2021-22	14	80	249	168	1	1,805	68
2022-23	7	83	248	144	0	1,704	73
2023-24	10	84	296	138	0	1,655	79
2024-25	11	78	289	139	1	1,567	70
Average	10	78	271	168	3	2,106	66