Enrollment Trends at MCLA

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,280 where 896 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

88.62% of total students is undergraduate students and 11.38% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 663 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 82 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.30 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in MCLA than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,641	1,457	538	919	184	63	121
2016-17	1,644 3	1,444 -13	541 3	903 -16	200 16	73 10	127 6
2017-18	1,588 -56	1,407 -37	538 -3	869 -34	181 -19	71 -2	110 -17
2018-19	1,452 -136	1,277 -130	485 -53	792 -77	175 -6	52 -19	123 13
2019-20	1,507 55	1,345 68	513 28	832 40	162 -13	45 -7	117 -6
2020-21	1,202 -305	1,076 -269	405 -108	671 -161	126 -36	40 -5	86 -31
2021-22	994 -208	870 -206	341 -64	529 -142	124 -2	41 1	83 -3
2022-23	938 -56	838 -32	356 15	482 -47	100 -24	34 -7	66 -17
2023-24	933 -5	836 -2	371 15	465 -17	97 -3	31 -3	66
2024-25	896 -37	794 -42	354 -17	440 -25	102 5	35 4	67 1
Average	1,280	1,134	444	690	145	49	97

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,134 where 794 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 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 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	1,457	1,280	484	796	177	54	123
2016-17	1,444	1,256	489	767	188	52	136
2017-18	1,407	1,201	466	735	206	72	134
2018-19	1,277	1,109	430	679	168	55	113
2019-20	1,345	1,145	449	696	200	64	136
2020-21	1,076	931	360	571	145	45	100
2021-22	870	759	309	450	111	32	79
2022-23	838	682	305	377	156	51	105
2023-24	836	675	312	363	161	59	102
2024-25	794	657	302	355	137	52	85
Average	1,134	1,134	391	579	1,134	54	111

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 145 where 102 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 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 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	184	14	2	12	170	61	109
2016-17	200	14	4	10	186	69	117
2017-18	181	18	7	11	163	64	99
2018-19	175	12	3	9	163	49	114
2019-20	162	14	4	10	148	41	107
2020-21	126	49	17	32	77	23	54
2021-22	124	64	19	45	60	22	38
2022-23	100	53	18	35	47	16	31
2023-24	97	42	11	31	55	20	35
2024-25	102	42	15	27	60	20	40
Average	145	145	10	22	145	39	74

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 71.65%. The percentage was 73.61% 10 years ago and MCLA still has a high percentage of white students. 1.34% of enrolled students is Asian and 7.48% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 6.58% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 73.61% to 71.65%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.95% to 1.34%. Black student enrollment decreased from 8.53% to 7.48%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 7.01% to 6.58%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4742 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.4448 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 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	8	32	140	115	0	1,208	44
2016-17	8	34	139	106	0	1,223	36
2017-18	5	32	122	126	2	1,186	44
2018-19	4	32	112	133	1	1,058	40
2019-20	2	27	141	140	1	1,076	41
2020-21	1	13	91	124	2	864	29
2021-22	4	13	78	103	2	708	39
2022-23	3	24	86	95	2	642	37
2023-24	2	16	77	80	3	674	34
2024-25	3	12	67	59	1	642	43
Average	4	24	105	108	1	928	39