Enrollment Trends at Franciscan University

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,347 where 1,191 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

72.29% of total students is undergraduate students and 27.71% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 586 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 126 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.96 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Franciscan University than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady 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	1,651	1,447	154	1,293	204	73	131
2016-17	1,409 -242	1,221 -226	141 -13	1,080 -213	188 -16	67 -6	121 -10
2017-18	1,446 37	1,193 -28	158 17	1,035 -45	253 65	68 1	185 64
2018-19	1,368 -78	1,120 -73	196 38	924 -111	248 -5	76 8	172 -13
2019-20	1,294 -74	1,018 -102	187 -9	831 -93	276 28	79 3	197 25
2020-21	1,366 72	1,034 16	171 -16	863 32	332 56	96 17	236 39
2021-22	1,315 -51	962 -72	173 2	789 -74	353 21	92 -4	261 25
2022-23	1,228 -87	891 -71	162 -11	729 -60	337 -16	93 1	244 -17
2023-24	1,204 -24	862 -29	152 -10	710 -19	342 5	92 -1	250 6
2024-25	1,191 -13	861 -1	138 -14	723 13	330 -12	102 10	228 -22
Average	1,347	1,061	163	898	286	84	203

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,061 where 861 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 Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady 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	1,447	622	69	553	825	85	740
2016-17	1,221	508	61	447	713	80	633
2017-18	1,193	494	63	431	699	95	604
2018-19	1,120	523	90	433	597	106	491
2019-20	1,018	513	78	435	505	109	396
2020-21	1,034	525	81	444	509	90	419
2021-22	962	475	72	403	487	101	386
2022-23	891	479	71	408	412	91	321
2023-24	862	462	80	382	400	72	328
2024-25	861	496	65	431	365	73	292
Average	1,061	1,061	73	437	1,061	90	461

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 286 where 330 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 Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady 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	204	129	48	81	75	25	50
2016-17	188	150	60	90	38	7	31
2017-18	253	197	59	138	56	9	47
2018-19	248	198	68	130	50	8	42
2019-20	276	236	75	161	40	4	36
2020-21	332	262	86	176	70	10	60
2021-22	353	268	78	190	85	14	71
2022-23	337	258	80	178	79	13	66
2023-24	342	263	75	188	79	17	62
2024-25	330	249	84	165	81	18	63
Average	286	286	71	150	286	13	53

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 67.09%. The percentage was 61.30% 10 years ago and Franciscan University still has a high percentage of white students. 3.61% of enrolled students is Asian and 17.72% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.96% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 61.30% to 67.09%. Asian enrollment grew from 2.97% to 3.61%. Black student enrollment decreased from 18.29% to 17.72%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 10.84% to 5.96%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5137 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.5781 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady 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	10	49	302	179	5	1,012	0
2016-17	9	42	249	134	2	867	0
2017-18	10	49	247	112	5	931	0
2018-19	9	40	212	105	5	924	0
2019-20	12	45	172	89	3	923	0
2020-21	14	49	230	84	4	971	0
2021-22	12	45	249	81	3	868	0
2022-23	13	47	226	73	2	831	17
2023-24	14	45	207	67	1	836	0
2024-25	7	43	211	71	1	799	0
Average	11	45	231	100	3	896	2