Enrollment Trends at Eastern Nazarene

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 680 where 60 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment decreased every year from 2016 to 2025, falling from 1,005 to 60 students, a loss of 945 (94%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Eastern Nazarene College since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
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Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,005	871	318	553	134	31	103
2016-17	924 -81	784 -87	316 -2	468 -85	140 6	40 9	100 -3
2017-18	848 -76	694 -90	300 -16	394 -74	154 14	43 3	111 11
2018-19	848	660 -34	307 7	353 -41	188 34	64 21	124 13
2019-20	772 -76	608 -52	286 -21	322 -31	164 -24	53 -11	111 -13
2020-21	699 -73	541 -67	280 -6	261 -61	158 -6	44 -9	114 3
2021-22	647 -52	492 -49	255 -25	237 -24	155 -3	45 1	110 -4
2022-23	535 -112	409 -83	232 -23	177 -60	126 -29	41 -4	85 -25
2023-24	458 -77	379 -30	215 -17	164 -13	79 -47	29 -12	50 -35
2024-25	60 -398	23 -356	16 -199	7 -157	37 -42	8 -21	29 -21
Average	680	546	253	294	134	40	94

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 546 where 23 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 Eastern Nazarene College since 2015.

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Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	871	636	254	382	235	64	171
2016-17	784	656	286	370	128	30	98
2017-18	694	571	259	312	123	41	82
2018-19	660	578	284	294	82	23	59
2019-20	608	550	269	281	58	17	41
2020-21	541	512	266	246	29	14	15
2021-22	492	450	236	214	42	19	23
2022-23	409	381	222	159	28	10	18
2023-24	379	359	207	152	20	8	12
2024-25	23	17	12	5	6	4	2
Average	546	546	230	242	546	23	52

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 134 where 37 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 Eastern Nazarene College since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
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Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	134	59	13	46	75	18	57
2016-17	140	60	19	41	80	21	59
2017-18	154	88	26	62	66	17	49
2018-19	188	99	27	72	89	37	52
2019-20	164	97	36	61	67	17	50
2020-21	158	87	28	59	71	16	55
2021-22	155	91	32	59	64	13	51
2022-23	126	66	18	48	60	23	37
2023-24	79	51	20	31	28	9	19
2024-25	37	37	8	29	0	0	0
Average	134	134	23	51	134	17	43

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 58.33%. The percentage was 53.33% 10 years ago and Eastern Nazarene still has a high percentage of white students. 6.67% of enrolled students is Asian and 21.67% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.00% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 53.33% to 58.33%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.49% to 6.67%. Black student enrollment decreased from 23.58% to 21.67%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 11.14% to 5.00%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6058 which indicates that moderately diverse. This decreased from 0.6461 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

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

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Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	1	15	237	112	3	536	35
2016-17	1	23	210	109	2	487	35
2017-18	1	24	189	100	4	449	31
2018-19	5	24	182	109	4	436	28
2019-20	5	29	140	115	2	378	36
2020-21	5	18	104	119	1	356	27
2021-22	1	17	98	112	1	314	20
2022-23	1	10	83	91	0	243	20
2023-24	1	9	65	97	1	178	26
2024-25	0	4	13	3	0	35	0
Average	2	17	132	97	2	341	26