Enrollment Trends at Mercyhurst

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,760 where 2,632 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

86.40% of total students is undergraduate students and 13.60% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 239 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 43 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.37 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Mercyhurst than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Mercyhurst 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	2,828	2,513	1,089	1,424	315	143	172
2016-17	2,690 -138	2,366 -147	1,098 9	1,268 -156	324 9	132 -11	192 20
2017-18	2,759 69	2,452 86	1,038 -60	1,414 146	307 -17	107 -25	200 8
2018-19	2,685 -74	2,381 -71	990 -48	1,391 -23	304 -3	118 11	186 -14
2019-20	2,704 19	2,378 -3	965 -25	1,413 22	326 22	126 8	200 14
2020-21	2,790 86	2,370 -8	983 18	1,387 -26	420 94	170 44	250 50
2021-22	3,041 251	2,641 271	1,057 74	1,584 197	400 -20	143 -27	257 7
2022-23	2,801 -240	2,446 -195	982 -75	1,464 -120	355 -45	142 -1	213 -44
2023-24	2,668 -133	2,292 -154	954 -28	1,338 -126	376 21	142	234 21
2024-25	2,632 -36	2,274 -18	959 5	1,315 -23	358 -18	151 9	207 -27
Average	2,760	2,411	1,012	1,400	349	137	211

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,411 where 2,274 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 Mercyhurst 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	2,513	2,402	1,048	1,354	111	41	70
2016-17	2,366	2,310	1,068	1,242	56	30	26
2017-18	2,452	2,373	1,014	1,359	79	24	55
2018-19	2,381	2,319	971	1,348	62	19	43
2019-20	2,378	2,295	937	1,358	83	28	55
2020-21	2,370	2,296	961	1,335	74	22	52
2021-22	2,641	2,404	1,012	1,392	237	45	192
2022-23	2,446	2,249	934	1,315	197	48	149
2023-24	2,292	2,129	909	1,220	163	45	118
2024-25	2,274	2,109	911	1,198	165	48	117
Average	2,411	2,411	977	1,312	2,411	35	88

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 349 where 358 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 Mercyhurst 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	315	169	69	100	146	74	72
2016-17	324	196	81	115	128	51	77
2017-18	307	190	66	124	117	41	76
2018-19	304	182	61	121	122	57	65
2019-20	326	193	70	123	133	56	77
2020-21	420	290	121	169	130	49	81
2021-22	400	274	93	181	126	50	76
2022-23	355	228	84	144	127	58	69
2023-24	376	273	96	177	103	46	57
2024-25	358	259	111	148	99	40	59
Average	349	349	85	140	349	52	71

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 71.47%. The percentage was 69.06% 10 years ago and Mercyhurst still has a high percentage of white students. 1.52% of enrolled students is Asian and 6.84% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.24% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 69.06% to 71.47%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.38% to 1.52%. Black student enrollment increased from 5.23% to 6.84%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.26% to 5.24%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4816 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.5195 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Mercyhurst 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	22	39	148	64	0	1,953	20
2016-17	16	39	142	127	4	1,675	0
2017-18	8	40	140	107	3	1,960	42
2018-19	7	34	115	105	1	2,089	59
2019-20	31	45	110	115	1	2,162	0
2020-21	21	37	119	114	1	2,250	29
2021-22	17	34	140	131	1	2,405	22
2022-23	10	27	135	127	1	2,083	14
2023-24	9	36	147	130	2	1,941	16
2024-25	9	40	180	138	7	1,881	5
Average	15	37	138	116	2	2,040	21