Enrollment Trends at JMU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 21,939 where 22,740 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

92.23% of total students is undergraduate students and 7.77% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 1,577 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 64 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.34 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in JMU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at James Madison 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	21,227	19,396	8,033	11,363	1,831	550	1,281
2016-17	21,270 43	19,548 152	8,013 -20	11,535 172	1,722 -109	513 -37	1,209 -72
2017-18	21,836 566	19,975 427	8,282 269	11,693 158	1,861 139	557 44	1,304 95
2018-19	21,751 -85	19,923 -52	8,347 65	11,576 -117	1,828 -33	548 -9	1,280 -24
2019-20	21,820 69	19,895 -28	8,406 59	11,489 -87	1,925 97	535 -13	1,390 110
2020-21	21,594 -226	19,727 -168	8,258 -148	11,469 -20	1,867 -58	526 -9	1,341 -49
2021-22	22,166 572	20,070 343	8,482 224	11,588 119	2,096 229	616 90	1,480 139
2022-23	22,224 58	20,346 276	8,741 259	11,605 17	1,878 -218	556 -60	1,322 -158
2023-24	22,758 534	21,006 660	9,108 367	11,898 293	1,752 -126	550 -6	1,202 -120
2024-25	22,740 -18	20,973 -33	9,131 23	11,842 -56	1,767 15	567 17	1,200 -2
Average	21,939	20,086	8,480	11,606	1,853	552	1,301

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 20,086 where 20,973 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 James Madison 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	19,396	18,433	7,518	10,915	963	515	448
2016-17	19,548	18,554	7,499	11,055	994	514	480
2017-18	19,975	18,905	7,757	11,148	1,070	525	545
2018-19	19,923	18,881	7,831	11,050	1,042	516	526
2019-20	19,895	18,798	7,859	10,939	1,097	547	550
2020-21	19,727	18,420	7,626	10,794	1,307	632	675
2021-22	20,070	18,723	7,835	10,888	1,347	647	700
2022-23	20,346	18,937	8,080	10,857	1,409	661	748
2023-24	21,006	19,492	8,396	11,096	1,514	712	802
2024-25	20,973	19,798	8,611	11,187	1,175	520	655
Average	20,086	20,086	7,901	10,993	20,086	579	613

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 1,853 where 1,767 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 James Madison 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	1,831	1,113	302	811	718	248	470
2016-17	1,722	1,043	294	749	679	219	460
2017-18	1,861	1,020	288	732	841	269	572
2018-19	1,828	1,033	289	744	795	259	536
2019-20	1,925	1,048	273	775	877	262	615
2020-21	1,867	1,094	282	812	773	244	529
2021-22	2,096	1,115	298	817	981	318	663
2022-23	1,878	1,047	288	759	831	268	563
2023-24	1,752	917	274	643	835	276	559
2024-25	1,767	939	320	619	828	247	581
Average	1,853	1,853	291	746	1,853	261	555

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 71.77%. The percentage was 75.61% 10 years ago and JMU still has a high percentage of white students. 5.17% of enrolled students is Asian and 4.92% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 8.59% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 75.61% to 71.77%. Asian enrollment grew from 4.23% to 5.17%. Black student enrollment increased from 4.31% to 4.92%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.59% to 8.59%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4693 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.4202 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at James Madison 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	37	898	915	1,187	26	16,049	803
2016-17	27	942	977	1,259	25	15,981	819
2017-18	23	959	1,069	1,395	28	16,311	907
2018-19	24	947	1,053	1,419	22	16,296	964
2019-20	24	1,000	1,081	1,470	22	16,308	1,010
2020-21	25	1,009	1,066	1,510	22	16,245	1,014
2021-22	28	1,061	1,087	1,549	25	16,623	1,058
2022-23	42	1,268	1,070	1,636	26	16,521	884
2023-24	30	1,164	1,051	1,748	28	16,786	1,146
2024-25	40	1,175	1,119	1,953	24	16,321	1,268
Average	30	1,042	1,049	1,513	25	16,344	987