Enrollment Trends at Friends

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,795 where 1,961 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

78.94% of total students is undergraduate students and 21.06% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 158 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 126 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.18 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Friends than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Friends 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	1,929	1,390	644	746	539	185	354
2016-17	1,676 -253	1,192 -198	554 -90	638 -108	484 -55	177 -8	307 -47
2017-18	1,628 -48	1,146 -46	504 -50	642 4	482 -2	165 -12	317 10
2018-19	1,926 298	1,356 210	576 72	780 138	570 88	188 23	382 65
2019-20	1,818 -108	1,291 -65	581 5	710 -70	527 -43	177 -11	350 -32
2020-21	1,671 -147	1,089 -202	525 -56	564 -146	582 55	187 10	395 45
2021-22	1,692 21	1,190 101	564 39	626 62	502 -80	161 -26	341 -54
2022-23	1,724 32	1,278 88	598 34	680 54	446 -56	124 -37	322 -19
2023-24	1,927 203	1,460 182	702 104	758 78	467 21	162 38	305 -17
2024-25	1,961 34	1,548 88	739 37	809 51	413 -54	160 -2	253 -52
Average	1,795	1,294	599	695	501	169	333

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,294 where 1,548 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 Friends 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	1,390	1,025	491	534	365	153	212
2016-17	1,192	920	434	486	272	120	152
2017-18	1,146	906	416	490	240	88	152
2018-19	1,356	886	415	471	470	161	309
2019-20	1,291	860	408	452	431	173	258
2020-21	1,089	850	409	441	239	116	123
2021-22	1,190	889	447	442	301	117	184
2022-23	1,278	922	466	456	356	132	224
2023-24	1,460	964	489	475	496	213	283
2024-25	1,548	1,034	521	513	514	218	296
Average	1,294	1,294	450	476	1,294	149	219

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 501 where 413 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 Friends 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	539	184	50	134	355	135	220
2016-17	484	185	48	137	299	129	170
2017-18	482	152	29	123	330	136	194
2018-19	570	145	33	112	425	155	270
2019-20	527	149	40	109	378	137	241
2020-21	582	146	34	112	436	153	283
2021-22	502	167	37	130	335	124	211
2022-23	446	145	30	115	301	94	207
2023-24	467	152	43	109	315	119	196
2024-25	413	202	68	134	211	92	119
Average	501	501	41	122	501	127	211

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.23%. The percentage was 65.06% 10 years ago and Friends still has a high percentage of white students. 3.01% of enrolled students is Asian and 8.47% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 17.39% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 65.06% to 55.23%. Asian enrollment grew from 2.38% to 3.01%. Black student enrollment decreased from 10.94% to 8.47%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.94% to 17.39%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6517 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5581 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Friends 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	29	46	211	76	6	1,255	126
2016-17	31	32	211	88	3	1,071	98
2017-18	21	39	148	144	5	990	35
2018-19	26	40	168	147	5	1,201	37
2019-20	19	75	144	156	2	1,097	74
2020-21	35	55	184	219	9	1,005	0
2021-22	42	65	198	88	5	1,005	173
2022-23	11	35	169	269	4	951	115
2023-24	13	67	167	321	3	1,036	130
2024-25	24	59	166	341	4	1,083	137
Average	25	51	177	185	5	1,069	93