Enrollment Trends at FPU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,992 where 1,654 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

60.28% of total students is undergraduate students and 39.72% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 671 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 52 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.28 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in FPU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Franklin Pierce 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	2,273	1,668	756	912	605	233	372
2016-17	2,392 119	1,763 95	787 31	976 64	629 24	240 7	389 17
2017-18	2,303 -89	1,713 -50	755 -32	958 -18	590 -39	230 -10	360 -29
2018-19	2,178 -125	1,634 -79	739 -16	895 -63	544 -46	215 -15	329 -31
2019-20	2,114 -64	1,600 -34	718 -21	882 -13	514 -30	187 -28	327 -2
2020-21	1,928 -186	1,436 -164	648 -70	788 -94	492 -22	185 -2	307 -20
2021-22	1,777 -151	1,279 -157	598 -50	681 -107	498 6	197 12	301 -6
2022-23	1,663 -114	1,118 -161	507 -91	611 -70	545 47	211 14	334 33
2023-24	1,637 -26	1,058 -60	543 36	515 -96	579 34	188 -23	391 57
2024-25	1,654 17	997 -61	521 -22	476 -39	657 78	204 16	453 62
Average	1,992	1,427	657	769	565	209	356

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,427 where 997 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 Franklin Pierce 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	1,668	1,465	704	761	203	52	151
2016-17	1,763	1,582	737	845	181	50	131
2017-18	1,713	1,563	711	852	150	44	106
2018-19	1,634	1,491	689	802	143	50	93
2019-20	1,600	1,450	667	783	150	51	99
2020-21	1,436	1,277	595	682	159	53	106
2021-22	1,279	1,059	519	540	220	79	141
2022-23	1,118	997	454	543	121	53	68
2023-24	1,058	872	475	397	186	68	118
2024-25	997	844	463	381	153	58	95
Average	1,427	1,427	601	659	1,427	56	111

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 565 where 657 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 Franklin Pierce 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	605	352	146	206	253	87	166
2016-17	629	379	153	226	250	87	163
2017-18	590	360	143	217	230	87	143
2018-19	544	276	116	160	268	99	169
2019-20	514	218	91	127	296	96	200
2020-21	492	323	131	192	169	54	115
2021-22	498	339	134	205	159	63	96
2022-23	545	373	136	237	172	75	97
2023-24	579	446	138	308	133	50	83
2024-25	657	548	165	383	109	39	70
Average	565	565	135	226	565	74	130

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 66.32%. The percentage was 76.02% 10 years ago and FPU still has a high percentage of white students. 3.57% of enrolled students is Asian and 7.26% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 10.34% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 76.02% to 66.32%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.36% to 3.57%. Black student enrollment increased from 4.88% to 7.26%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.10% to 10.34%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5421 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.4167 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Franklin Pierce 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	31	111	116	5	1,728	33
2016-17	9	38	136	157	3	1,792	41
2017-18	8	39	120	100	3	1,715	83
2018-19	17	68	149	156	4	1,619	0
2019-20	6	56	132	161	2	1,552	52
2020-21	10	52	120	141	3	1,414	48
2021-22	5	48	102	143	4	1,301	46
2022-23	6	46	86	163	2	1,185	49
2023-24	7	51	101	183	1	1,111	41
2024-25	7	59	120	171	1	1,097	46
Average	8	49	118	149	3	1,451	44