Enrollment Trends at Meredith

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,777 where 1,465 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

82.32% of total students is undergraduate students and 17.68% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 473 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 11 over past 10 years.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Meredith College since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,949	1,679	2	1,677	270	29	241
2016-17	1,981 32	1,685 6	3 1	1,682 5	296 26	36 7	260 19
2017-18	1,980 -1	1,682 -3	2 -1	1,680 -2	298 2	36	262 2
2018-19	1,905 -75	1,603 -79	5 3	1,598 -82	302 4	38 2	264 2
2019-20	1,810 -95	1,528 -75	3 -2	1,525 -73	282 -20	30 -8	252 -12
2020-21	1,802 -8	1,521 -7	1 -2	1,520 -5	281 -1	28 -2	253 1
2021-22	1,711 -91	1,427 -94	2 1	1,425 -95	284 3	32 4	252 -1
2022-23	1,587 -124	1,322 -105	4 2	1,318 -107	265 -19	26 -6	239 -13
2023-24	1,576 -11	1,309 -13	2 -2	1,307 -11	267 2	29 3	238 -1
2024-25	1,465 -111	1,206 -103	4 2	1,202 -105	259 -8	25 -4	234 -4
Average	1,777	1,496	3	1,493	280	31	250

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,496 where 1,206 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 Meredith College 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	1,679	1,616	0	1,616	63	2	61
2016-17	1,685	1,616	0	1,616	69	3	66
2017-18	1,682	1,600	0	1,600	82	2	80
2018-19	1,603	1,531	0	1,531	72	5	67
2019-20	1,528	1,464	0	1,464	64	3	61
2020-21	1,521	1,468	0	1,468	53	1	52
2021-22	1,427	1,373	0	1,373	54	2	52
2022-23	1,322	1,258	0	1,258	64	4	60
2023-24	1,309	1,242	0	1,242	67	2	65
2024-25	1,206	1,170	0	1,170	36	4	32
Average	1,496	1,496	0	1,434	1,496	3	60

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 280 where 259 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 Meredith College 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	270	131	11	120	139	18	121
2016-17	296	146	19	127	150	17	133
2017-18	298	115	17	98	183	19	164
2018-19	302	135	16	119	167	22	145
2019-20	282	121	14	107	161	16	145
2020-21	281	124	8	116	157	20	137
2021-22	284	128	16	112	156	16	140
2022-23	265	103	10	93	162	16	146
2023-24	267	124	11	113	143	18	125
2024-25	259	127	13	114	132	12	120
Average	280	280	14	112	280	17	138

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 60.07%. The percentage was 69.52% 10 years ago and Meredith still has a high percentage of white students. 4.30% of enrolled students is Asian and 9.49% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 17.47% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 69.52% to 60.07%. Asian enrollment grew from 3.08% to 4.30%. Black student enrollment decreased from 10.93% to 9.49%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.03% to 17.47%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5963 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5016 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Meredith College 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	18	60	213	59	1	1,355	67
2016-17	14	59	178	108	3	1,378	63
2017-18	14	65	183	156	2	1,391	63
2018-19	12	67	185	155	2	1,295	54
2019-20	7	74	175	165	2	1,202	59
2020-21	9	73	171	182	3	1,168	53
2021-22	9	77	170	190	2	1,093	52
2022-23	11	75	163	190	3	1,017	30
2023-24	4	76	150	237	2	979	53
2024-25	2	63	139	256	1	880	57
Average	10	69	173	170	2	1,176	55