Enrollment Trends at MBU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 5,351 where 5,699 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

87.00% of total students is undergraduate students and 13.00% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 788 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 365 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.45 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in MBU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Missouri Baptist 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	5,276	4,170	1,584	2,586	1,106	276	830
2016-17	5,732 456	4,632 462	1,791 207	2,841 255	1,100 -6	279 3	821 -9
2017-18	5,488 -244	4,508 -124	1,746 -45	2,762 -79	980 -120	256 -23	724 -97
2018-19	5,292 -196	4,392 -116	1,688 -58	2,704 -58	900 -80	247 -9	653 -71
2019-20	5,309 17	4,436 44	1,802 114	2,634 -70	873 -27	229 -18	644 -9
2020-21	4,860 -449	4,046 -390	1,659 -143	2,387 -247	814 -59	215 -14	599 -45
2021-22	4,983 123	4,251 205	1,765 106	2,486 99	732 -82	181 -34	551 -48
2022-23	5,231 248	4,549 298	1,903 138	2,646 160	682 -50	161 -20	521 -30
2023-24	5,641 410	4,889 340	2,061 158	2,828 182	752 70	177 16	575 54
2024-25	5,699 58	4,958 69	2,141 80	2,817 -11	741 -11	183 6	558 -17
Average	5,351	4,483	1,814	2,669	868	220	648

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 4,483 where 4,958 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 Missouri Baptist 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	4,170	1,347	646	701	2,823	938	1,885
2016-17	4,632	1,440	685	755	3,192	1,106	2,086
2017-18	4,508	1,519	682	837	2,989	1,064	1,925
2018-19	4,392	1,471	663	808	2,921	1,025	1,896
2019-20	4,436	1,526	693	833	2,910	1,109	1,801
2020-21	4,046	1,380	632	748	2,666	1,027	1,639
2021-22	4,251	1,348	631	717	2,903	1,134	1,769
2022-23	4,549	1,390	649	741	3,159	1,254	1,905
2023-24	4,889	1,371	653	718	3,518	1,408	2,110
2024-25	4,958	1,405	657	748	3,553	1,484	2,069
Average	4,483	4,483	659	761	4,483	1,155	1,909

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 868 where 741 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 Missouri Baptist 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	1,106	215	43	172	891	233	658
2016-17	1,100	203	36	167	897	243	654
2017-18	980	171	37	134	809	219	590
2018-19	900	137	56	81	763	191	572
2019-20	873	122	37	85	751	192	559
2020-21	814	129	39	90	685	176	509
2021-22	732	119	34	85	613	147	466
2022-23	682	125	29	96	557	132	425
2023-24	752	173	32	141	579	145	434
2024-25	741	192	42	150	549	141	408
Average	868	868	39	120	868	182	528

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 80.59%. The percentage was 60.01% 10 years ago and MBU still has a high percentage of white students. 2.51% of enrolled students is Asian and 7.19% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 0.28% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 60.01% to 80.59%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.87% to 2.51%. Black student enrollment increased from 6.88% to 7.19%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 1.40% to 0.28%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.3436 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.6346 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Missouri Baptist 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	9	46	363	74	2	3,166	91
2016-17	26	51	406	62	7	3,519	97
2017-18	40	59	419	40	12	3,443	77
2018-19	43	83	377	67	11	3,470	70
2019-20	49	76	361	59	9	3,303	82
2020-21	44	80	394	81	11	3,668	88
2021-22	40	93	384	86	9	3,749	102
2022-23	37	47	294	25	6	2,223	38
2023-24	21	36	302	12	4	1,984	71
2024-25	39	143	410	16	15	4,593	180
Average	35	71	371	52	9	3,312	90