Enrollment Trends at Claflin

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,971 where 1,852 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

93.47% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.53% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 120 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 47 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.32 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Claflin than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Claflin 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	1,925	1,851	659	1,192	74	30	44
2016-17	1,978 53	1,905 54	664 5	1,241 49	73 -1	33 3	40 -4
2017-18	2,129 151	2,038 133	662 -2	1,376 135	91 18	32 -1	59 19
2018-19	2,172 43	2,080 42	657 -5	1,423 47	92 1	29 -3	63 4
2019-20	2,070 -102	1,986 -94	644 -13	1,342 -81	84 -8	21 -8	63
2020-21	2,048 -22	1,969 -17	572 -72	1,397 55	79 -5	17 -4	62 -1
2021-22	1,866 -182	1,779 -190	518 -54	1,261 -136	87 8	26 9	61 -1
2022-23	1,830 -36	1,749 -30	548 30	1,201 -60	81 -6	16 -10	65 4
2023-24	1,835 5	1,754 5	463 -85	1,291 90	81	26 10	55 -10
2024-25	1,852 17	1,731 -23	513 50	1,218 -73	121 40	44 18	77 22
Average	1,971	1,884	590	1,294	86	27	59

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,884 where 1,731 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 Claflin 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	1,851	1,807	642	1,165	44	17	27
2016-17	1,905	1,873	648	1,225	32	16	16
2017-18	2,038	1,955	620	1,335	83	42	41
2018-19	2,080	1,984	618	1,366	96	39	57
2019-20	1,986	1,889	601	1,288	97	43	54
2020-21	1,969	1,806	521	1,285	163	51	112
2021-22	1,779	1,687	498	1,189	92	20	72
2022-23	1,749	1,618	493	1,125	131	55	76
2023-24	1,754	1,613	434	1,179	141	29	112
2024-25	1,731	1,595	468	1,127	136	45	91
Average	1,884	1,884	554	1,228	1,884	36	66

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 86 where 121 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 Claflin 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	74	58	25	33	16	5	11
2016-17	73	57	23	34	16	10	6
2017-18	91	71	23	48	20	9	11
2018-19	92	71	23	48	21	6	15
2019-20	84	70	16	54	14	5	9
2020-21	79	62	15	47	17	2	15
2021-22	87	50	15	35	37	11	26
2022-23	81	47	9	38	34	7	27
2023-24	81	51	17	34	30	9	21
2024-25	121	74	33	41	47	11	36
Average	86	86	20	41	86	8	18

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 2.27% and the percentage of black students is 88.12% at Claflin University. 0.11% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 0.76% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 1.25% to 2.27%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.30% to 0.11%. Black student enrollment decreased from 91.27% to 88.12%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 1.71% to 0.76%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.2229 which indicates that not very diverse. This increased from 0.1662 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Claflin 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	21	25	1,757	33	1	24	5
2016-17	24	32	1,775	37	1	31	4
2017-18	34	30	1,926	40	1	34	1
2018-19	27	23	1,996	32	3	22	0
2019-20	29	13	1,871	28	4	27	1
2020-21	21	9	1,881	27	1	29	1
2021-22	15	10	1,731	20	0	45	2
2022-23	11	9	1,620	20	0	73	3
2023-24	10	3	1,634	15	1	27	1
2024-25	4	2	1,632	14	0	42	2
Average	20	16	1,782	27	1	35	2