Enrollment Trends at Graceland University-Lamoni

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,700 where 1,102 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 1 year-over-year increase and 8 decreases. It peaked at 2,300 students in 2016 and was lowest at 1,102 in 2025. Overall, enrollment dropped from 2,300 to 1,102 students, a net loss of 1,198 (52.1%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Graceland University-Lamoni since 2015.

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Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,300	1,554	682	872	746	109	637
2016-17	2,233 -67	1,449 -105	599 -83	850 -22	784 38	114 5	670 33
2017-18	2,262 29	1,403 -46	614 15	789 -61	859 75	108 -6	751 81
2018-19	1,993 -269	1,181 -222	493 -121	688 -101	812 -47	107 -1	705 -46
2019-20	1,733 -260	1,032 -149	449 -44	583 -105	701 -111	107	594 -111
2020-21	1,517 -216	959 -73	421 -28	538 -45	558 -143	87 -20	471 -123
2021-22	1,427 -90	957 -2	465 44	492 -46	470 -88	76 -11	394 -77
2022-23	1,237 -190	885 -72	498 33	387 -105	352 -118	64 -12	288 -106
2023-24	1,195 -42	902 17	541 43	361 -26	293 -59	47 -17	246 -42
2024-25	1,102 -93	798 -104	469 -72	329 -32	304 11	64 17	240 -6
Average	1,700	1,112	523	589	588	88	500

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,112 where 798 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 Graceland University-Lamoni since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
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Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,554	1,241	578	663	313	104	209
2016-17	1,449	1,167	514	653	282	85	197
2017-18	1,403	1,061	501	560	342	113	229
2018-19	1,181	1,023	456	567	158	37	121
2019-20	1,032	898	390	508	134	59	75
2020-21	959	868	396	472	91	25	66
2021-22	957	877	440	437	80	25	55
2022-23	885	818	474	344	67	24	43
2023-24	902	868	534	334	34	7	27
2024-25	798	774	465	309	24	4	20
Average	1,112	1,112	475	485	1,112	48	104

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 588 where 304 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 Graceland University-Lamoni since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
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Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	746	381	66	315	365	43	322
2016-17	784	413	59	354	371	55	316
2017-18	859	465	63	402	394	45	349
2018-19	812	449	65	384	363	42	321
2019-20	701	314	48	266	387	59	328
2020-21	558	244	36	208	314	51	263
2021-22	470	225	40	185	245	36	209
2022-23	352	158	29	129	194	35	159
2023-24	293	129	24	105	164	23	141
2024-25	304	181	43	138	123	21	102
Average	588	588	47	249	588	41	251

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 52.00%. The percentage was 61.39% 10 years ago and Graceland University-Lamoni still has a high percentage of white students. 1.45% of enrolled students is Asian and 16.70% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 11.71% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 61.39% to 52.00%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.30% to 1.45%. Black student enrollment increased from 7.48% to 16.70%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.91% to 11.71%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6851 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.6100 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

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

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Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	11	30	172	182	19	1,412	71
2016-17	10	28	161	178	17	1,414	67
2017-18	14	36	172	161	17	1,387	67
2018-19	13	34	149	151	19	1,305	70
2019-20	13	29	124	130	17	1,167	60
2020-21	13	27	133	128	17	989	58
2021-22	9	24	159	122	18	856	57
2022-23	7	21	153	114	18	675	51
2023-24	5	20	183	136	12	611	51
2024-25	2	16	184	129	11	573	57
Average	10	27	159	143	17	1,039	61