Enrollment Trends at Marian

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,646 where 1,246 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

81.94% of total students is undergraduate students and 18.06% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 532 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 321 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.95 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Marian than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Marian 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	2,099	1,553	445	1,108	546	155	391
2016-17	1,974 -125	1,487 -66	444 -1	1,043 -65	487 -59	144 -11	343 -48
2017-18	1,971 -3	1,508 21	462 18	1,046 3	463 -24	122 -22	341 -2
2018-19	1,819 -152	1,430 -78	434 -28	996 -50	389 -74	79 -43	310 -31
2019-20	1,656 -163	1,327 -103	417 -17	910 -86	329 -60	62 -17	267 -43
2020-21	1,593 -63	1,290 -37	406 -11	884 -26	303 -26	56 -6	247 -20
2021-22	1,445 -148	1,149 -141	388 -18	761 -123	296 -7	51 -5	245 -2
2022-23	1,340 -105	1,068 -81	358 -30	710 -51	272 -24	57 6	215 -30
2023-24	1,319 -21	1,074 6	381 23	693 -17	245 -27	44 -13	201 -14
2024-25	1,246 -73	1,021 -53	386 5	635 -58	225 -20	36 -8	189 -12
Average	1,646	1,291	412	879	356	81	275

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,291 where 1,021 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 Marian 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	1,553	1,287	376	911	266	69	197
2016-17	1,487	1,184	368	816	303	76	227
2017-18	1,508	1,254	397	857	254	65	189
2018-19	1,430	1,218	391	827	212	43	169
2019-20	1,327	1,171	379	792	156	38	118
2020-21	1,290	1,119	365	754	171	41	130
2021-22	1,149	993	349	644	156	39	117
2022-23	1,068	920	324	596	148	34	114
2023-24	1,074	914	341	573	160	40	120
2024-25	1,021	792	324	468	229	62	167
Average	1,291	1,291	361	724	1,291	51	155

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 356 where 225 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 Marian 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	546	44	6	38	502	149	353
2016-17	487	27	4	23	460	140	320
2017-18	463	26	6	20	437	116	321
2018-19	389	27	6	21	362	73	289
2019-20	329	26	4	22	303	58	245
2020-21	303	138	17	121	165	39	126
2021-22	296	33	4	29	263	47	216
2022-23	272	20	2	18	252	55	197
2023-24	245	30	1	29	215	43	172
2024-25	225	41	10	31	184	26	158
Average	356	356	6	35	356	75	240

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 66.85%. The percentage was 82.71% 10 years ago and Marian still has a high percentage of white students. 1.28% of enrolled students is Asian and 6.90% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 11.32% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 82.71% to 66.85%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.95% to 1.28%. Black student enrollment increased from 5.62% to 6.90%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 4.86% to 11.32%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5340 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3103 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Marian 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	13	20	118	102	2	1,736	13
2016-17	10	21	118	103	3	1,631	11
2017-18	8	32	113	107	5	1,618	9
2018-19	8	41	99	120	1	1,435	36
2019-20	13	29	101	129	3	1,228	38
2020-21	15	23	86	125	3	1,201	33
2021-22	15	21	82	117	1	1,067	34
2022-23	13	24	69	109	1	990	31
2023-24	13	28	91	115	1	908	38
2024-25	15	16	86	141	2	833	42
Average	12	26	96	117	2	1,265	29