Enrollment Trends at ECSU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,843 where 2,258 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

95.39% of total students is undergraduate students and 4.61% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 619 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 54 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.09 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in ECSU.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Elizabeth City State 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	1,585	1,535	659	876	50	19	31
2016-17	1,357 -228	1,310 -225	576 -83	734 -142	47 -3	11 -8	36 5
2017-18	1,411 54	1,368 58	610 34	758 24	43 -4	9 -2	34 -2
2018-19	1,677 266	1,636 268	697 87	939 181	41 -2	10 1	31 -3
2019-20	1,769 92	1,692 56	690 -7	1,002 63	77 36	19 9	58 27
2020-21	2,002 233	1,910 218	783 93	1,127 125	92 15	24 5	68 10
2021-22	2,054 52	1,956 46	786 3	1,170 43	98 6	21 -3	77 9
2022-23	2,149 95	2,033 77	876 90	1,157 -13	116 18	26 5	90 13
2023-24	2,165 16	2,048 15	945 69	1,103 -54	117 1	21 -5	96 6
2024-25	2,258 93	2,154 106	1,060 115	1,094 -9	104 -13	22 1	82 -14
Average	1,843	1,764	768	996	79	18	60

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,764 where 2,154 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 Elizabeth City State 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	1,535	1,405	614	791	130	45	85
2016-17	1,310	1,197	534	663	113	42	71
2017-18	1,368	1,179	527	652	189	83	106
2018-19	1,636	1,425	621	804	211	76	135
2019-20	1,692	1,516	650	866	176	40	136
2020-21	1,910	1,624	692	932	286	91	195
2021-22	1,956	1,627	696	931	329	90	239
2022-23	2,033	1,704	768	936	329	108	221
2023-24	2,048	1,678	798	880	370	147	223
2024-25	2,154	1,796	919	877	358	141	217
Average	1,764	1,764	682	833	1,764	86	163

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 79 where 104 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 Elizabeth City State 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	50	1	0	1	49	19	30
2016-17	47	11	3	8	36	8	28
2017-18	43	16	3	13	27	6	21
2018-19	41	8	4	4	33	6	27
2019-20	77	26	6	20	51	13	38
2020-21	92	27	13	14	65	11	54
2021-22	98	36	12	24	62	9	53
2022-23	116	31	9	22	85	17	68
2023-24	117	35	6	29	82	15	67
2024-25	104	42	13	29	62	9	53
Average	79	79	7	16	79	11	44

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 18.25% and the percentage of black students is 63.91% at Elizabeth City State University. 0.66% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 5.85% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 15.33% to 18.25%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.25% to 0.66%. Black student enrollment decreased from 73.31% to 63.91%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.33% to 5.85%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5515 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4384 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Elizabeth City State 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	4	4	1,162	37	0	243	12
2016-17	6	3	976	34	1	234	16
2017-18	5	12	963	46	5	268	33
2018-19	8	10	1,160	68	2	293	60
2019-20	6	11	1,213	74	1	317	81
2020-21	6	11	1,348	95	2	366	97
2021-22	10	10	1,382	96	3	364	103
2022-23	11	8	1,465	93	0	369	122
2023-24	14	16	1,429	101	1	379	118
2024-25	9	15	1,443	132	1	412	131
Average	8	10	1,254	78	2	325	77