Enrollment Trends at Lehigh

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 7,194 where 7,692 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

76.85% of total students is undergraduate students and 23.15% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 836 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 198 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.94 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Lehigh.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Lehigh 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	7,054	5,075	2,817	2,258	1,979	1,085	894
2016-17	7,059 5	5,080 5	2,852 35	2,228 -30	1,979	1,070 -15	909 15
2017-18	7,017 -42	5,075 -5	2,775 -77	2,300 72	1,942 -37	1,071 1	871 -38
2018-19	6,849 -168	5,047 -28	2,735 -40	2,312 12	1,802 -140	990 -81	812 -59
2019-20	6,953 104	5,178 131	2,779 44	2,399 87	1,775 -27	974 -16	801 -11
2020-21	7,067 114	5,203 25	2,797 18	2,406 7	1,864 89	999 25	865 64
2021-22	7,263 196	5,451 248	2,941 144	2,510 104	1,812 -52	962 -37	850 -15
2022-23	7,394 131	5,624 173	3,039 98	2,585 75	1,770 -42	955 -7	815 -35
2023-24	7,590 196	5,811 187	3,047 8	2,764 179	1,779 9	915 -40	864 49
2024-25	7,692 102	5,911 100	3,075 28	2,836 72	1,781 2	900 -15	881 17
Average	7,194	5,346	2,886	2,460	1,848	992	856

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 5,346 where 5,911 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 Lehigh 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	5,075	5,001	2,766	2,235	74	51	23
2016-17	5,080	5,003	2,807	2,196	77	45	32
2017-18	5,075	5,013	2,738	2,275	62	37	25
2018-19	5,047	4,982	2,699	2,283	65	36	29
2019-20	5,178	5,107	2,739	2,368	71	40	31
2020-21	5,203	5,070	2,711	2,359	133	86	47
2021-22	5,451	5,375	2,895	2,480	76	46	30
2022-23	5,624	5,557	2,999	2,558	67	40	27
2023-24	5,811	5,736	3,003	2,733	75	44	31
2024-25	5,911	5,823	3,018	2,805	88	57	31
Average	5,346	5,346	2,838	2,429	5,346	48	31

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 1,848 where 1,781 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 Lehigh 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	1,979	1,209	697	512	770	388	382
2016-17	1,979	1,227	708	519	752	362	390
2017-18	1,942	1,220	707	513	722	364	358
2018-19	1,802	1,111	658	453	691	332	359
2019-20	1,775	1,038	616	422	737	358	379
2020-21	1,864	1,048	610	438	816	389	427
2021-22	1,812	1,032	585	447	780	377	403
2022-23	1,770	1,054	602	452	716	353	363
2023-24	1,779	1,049	577	472	730	338	392
2024-25	1,781	1,053	578	475	728	322	406
Average	1,848	1,848	634	470	1,848	358	386

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 57.10%. The percentage was 59.98% 10 years ago and Lehigh still has a high percentage of white students. 9.37% of enrolled students is Asian and 4.50% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.96% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 59.98% to 57.10%. Asian enrollment grew from 7.17% to 9.37%. Black student enrollment increased from 3.12% to 4.50%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.00% to 9.96%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6520 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.6288 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

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

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• 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	506	220	494	5	4,231	140
2016-17	8	499	231	514	6	4,214	137
2017-18	9	487	232	515	8	4,138	162
2018-19	6	467	219	565	8	4,014	178
2019-20	5	471	260	570	9	4,101	197
2020-21	4	512	289	634	3	4,173	207
2021-22	7	580	310	660	3	4,296	216
2022-23	6	644	347	675	4	4,279	249
2023-24	7	698	350	736	2	4,325	257
2024-25	5	721	346	766	6	4,392	273
Average	7	559	280	613	5	4,216	202