Enrollment Trends at Converse

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,401 where 1,787 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

65.64% of total students is undergraduate students and 34.36% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 379 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 260 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.97 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Converse than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Converse 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	1,148	794	0	794	354	54	300
2016-17	1,320 172	870 76	0	870 76	450 96	77 23	373 73
2017-18	1,478 158	918 48	3 3	915 45	560 110	119 42	441 68
2018-19	1,380 -98	893 -25	7 4	886 -29	487 -73	70 -49	417 -24
2019-20	1,455 75	808 -85	15 8	793 -93	647 160	91 21	556 139
2020-21	1,377 -78	737 -71	41 26	696 -97	640 -7	115 24	525 -31
2021-22	1,440 63	822 85	138 97	684 -12	618 -22	124 9	494 -31
2022-23	1,284 -156	804 -18	169 31	635 -49	480 -138	104 -20	376 -118
2023-24	1,341 57	852 48	227 58	625 -10	489 9	86 -18	403 27
2024-25	1,787 446	1,173 321	317 90	856 231	614 125	133 47	481 78
Average	1,401	867	92	775	534	97	437

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 867 where 1,173 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 Converse 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	794	745	0	745	49	0	49
2016-17	870	815	0	815	55	0	55
2017-18	918	860	3	857	58	0	58
2018-19	893	842	7	835	51	0	51
2019-20	808	761	15	746	47	0	47
2020-21	737	684	27	657	53	14	39
2021-22	822	781	134	647	41	4	37
2022-23	804	781	168	613	23	1	22
2023-24	852	821	221	600	31	6	25
2024-25	1,173	1,141	311	830	32	6	26
Average	867	867	89	735	867	3	41

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 534 where 614 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 Converse 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	354	97	8	89	257	46	211
2016-17	450	137	35	102	313	42	271
2017-18	560	153	45	108	407	74	333
2018-19	487	97	17	80	390	53	337
2019-20	647	123	23	100	524	68	456
2020-21	640	133	20	113	507	95	412
2021-22	618	125	31	94	493	93	400
2022-23	480	120	27	93	360	77	283
2023-24	489	99	13	86	390	73	317
2024-25	614	93	13	80	521	120	401
Average	534	534	23	95	534	74	342

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 53.72%. The percentage was 61.24% 10 years ago and Converse still has a high percentage of white students. 1.23% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.98% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 8.00% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 61.24% to 53.72%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.61% to 1.23%. Black student enrollment increased from 8.28% to 11.98%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 4.18% to 8.00%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6896 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.6157 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Converse 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	0	7	95	48	0	703	29
2016-17	2	5	104	44	0	737	41
2017-18	2	12	125	52	1	988	49
2018-19	0	14	140	44	3	956	33
2019-20	4	22	167	54	3	981	57
2020-21	5	21	150	56	4	957	54
2021-22	29	32	177	111	3	945	44
2022-23	27	36	159	108	3	780	34
2023-24	18	27	167	120	1	782	42
2024-25	16	22	214	143	2	960	50
Average	10	20	150	78	2	879	43