Enrollment Trends at Drury

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,235 where 1,615 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

86.13% of total students is undergraduate students and 13.87% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 2,009 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 64 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.19 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Drury than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Drury 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	3,688	3,400	1,518	1,882	288	81	207
2016-17	3,569 -119	3,330 -70	1,410 -108	1,920 38	239 -49	73 -8	166 -41
2017-18	3,512 -57	3,279 -51	1,283 -127	1,996 76	233 -6	66 -7	167 1
2018-19	1,730 -1,782	1,490 -1,789	632 -651	858 -1,138	240 7	58 -8	182 15
2019-20	1,743 13	1,479 -11	627 -5	852 -6	264 24	65 7	199 17
2020-21	1,691 -52	1,409 -70	613 -14	796 -56	282 18	90 25	192 -7
2021-22	1,615 -76	1,345 -64	587 -26	758 -38	270 -12	85 -5	185 -7
2022-23	1,595 -20	1,375 30	627 40	748 -10	220 -50	64 -21	156 -29
2023-24	1,596 1	1,368 -7	650 23	718 -30	228 8	65 1	163 7
2024-25	1,615 19	1,391 23	675 25	716 -2	224 -4	63 -2	161 -2
Average	2,235	1,987	862	1,124	249	71	178

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,987 where 1,391 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 Drury 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	3,400	2,430	1,170	1,260	970	348	622
2016-17	3,330	2,388	1,045	1,343	942	365	577
2017-18	3,279	2,478	996	1,482	801	287	514
2018-19	1,490	1,462	619	843	28	13	15
2019-20	1,479	1,444	609	835	35	18	17
2020-21	1,409	1,383	603	780	26	10	16
2021-22	1,345	1,318	577	741	27	10	17
2022-23	1,375	1,355	617	738	20	10	10
2023-24	1,368	1,350	641	709	18	9	9
2024-25	1,391	1,374	668	706	17	7	10
Average	1,987	1,987	755	944	1,987	108	181

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 249 where 224 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 Drury 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	288	185	61	124	103	20	83
2016-17	239	157	54	103	82	19	63
2017-18	233	173	58	115	60	8	52
2018-19	240	169	48	121	71	10	61
2019-20	264	22	8	14	242	57	185
2020-21	282	26	6	20	256	84	172
2021-22	270	22	9	13	248	76	172
2022-23	220	13	1	12	207	63	144
2023-24	228	40	9	31	188	56	132
2024-25	224	77	20	57	147	43	104
Average	249	249	27	61	249	44	117

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 71.58%. The percentage was 80.34% 10 years ago and Drury still has a high percentage of white students. 2.23% of enrolled students is Asian and 3.28% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 4.33% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 80.34% to 71.58%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.11% to 2.23%. Black student enrollment decreased from 4.53% to 3.28%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 4.83% to 4.33%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4824 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3493 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Drury 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	37	41	167	178	8	2,963	89
2016-17	17	33	120	158	5	2,979	91
2017-18	22	44	128	151	6	2,888	89
2018-19	15	25	52	35	3	1,413	68
2019-20	15	21	53	29	6	1,422	60
2020-21	16	24	63	28	6	1,338	54
2021-22	15	27	56	27	11	1,258	47
2022-23	24	35	54	27	7	1,201	44
2023-24	20	35	49	45	2	1,183	56
2024-25	20	36	53	70	0	1,156	65
Average	20	32	80	75	5	1,780	66