Enrollment Trends at Fontbonne

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,132 where 332 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

62.95% of total students is undergraduate students and 37.05% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 896 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 485 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.44 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Fontbonne than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Fontbonne 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	1,713	1,105	346	759	608	174	434
2016-17	1,526 -187	968 -137	329 -17	639 -120	558 -50	168 -6	390 -44
2017-18	1,375 -151	893 -75	343 14	550 -89	482 -76	122 -46	360 -30
2018-19	1,290 -85	891 -2	349 6	542 -8	399 -83	93 -29	306 -54
2019-20	1,199 -91	868 -23	338 -11	530 -12	331 -68	81 -12	250 -56
2020-21	1,112 -87	816 -52	314 -24	502 -28	296 -35	67 -14	229 -21
2021-22	955 -157	665 -151	252 -62	413 -89	290 -6	69 2	221 -8
2022-23	944 -11	684 19	326 74	358 -55	260 -30	57 -12	203 -18
2023-24	874 -70	650 -34	319 -7	331 -27	224 -36	43 -14	181 -22
2024-25	332 -542	209 -441	106 -213	103 -228	123 -101	30 -13	93 -88
Average	1,132	775	302	473	357	90	267

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 775 where 209 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 Fontbonne 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	1,105	902	308	594	203	38	165
2016-17	968	825	296	529	143	33	110
2017-18	893	765	316	449	128	27	101
2018-19	891	781	319	462	110	30	80
2019-20	868	770	305	465	98	33	65
2020-21	816	728	288	440	88	26	62
2021-22	665	592	237	355	73	15	58
2022-23	684	615	305	310	69	21	48
2023-24	650	595	307	288	55	12	43
2024-25	209	170	90	80	39	16	23
Average	775	775	277	397	775	25	76

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 357 where 123 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 Fontbonne 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	608	275	88	187	333	86	247
2016-17	558	260	83	177	298	85	213
2017-18	482	216	52	164	266	70	196
2018-19	399	149	37	112	250	56	194
2019-20	331	141	33	108	190	48	142
2020-21	296	135	24	111	161	43	118
2021-22	290	155	27	128	135	42	93
2022-23	260	147	25	122	113	32	81
2023-24	224	138	26	112	86	17	69
2024-25	123	78	15	63	45	15	30
Average	357	357	41	128	357	49	138

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 72.29%. The percentage was 67.72% 10 years ago and Fontbonne still has a high percentage of white students. 2.41% of enrolled students is Asian and 15.36% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 0.60% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 67.72% to 72.29%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.52% to 2.41%. Black student enrollment decreased from 15.76% to 15.36%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 1.81% to 0.60%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4512 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.5158 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

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

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• 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	5	26	270	31	1	1,160	25
2016-17	4	18	221	27	1	1,029	31
2017-18	4	25	184	21	3	954	31
2018-19	3	21	211	22	1	878	36
2019-20	2	18	205	37	1	769	38
2020-21	2	18	223	27	1	719	32
2021-22	1	13	212	19	1	586	29
2022-23	2	15	202	13	1	561	40
2023-24	4	18	204	9	1	544	41
2024-25	1	8	51	2	0	240	15
Average	3	18	198	21	1	744	32