Enrollment Trends at Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,112 where 1,163 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

The female to male ratio is 1.86 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Mitchell Hamline School of Law than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Mitchell Hamline School of Law since 2015.

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	738	346	392
2016-17	927 189	480 134	447 55
2017-18	1,095 168	541 61	554 107
2018-19	1,154 59	560 19	594 40
2019-20	1,168 14	537 -23	631 37
2020-21	1,242 74	570 33	672 41
2021-22	1,220 -22	538 -32	682 10
2022-23	1,192 -28	487 -51	705 23
2023-24	1,217 25	454 -33	763 58
2024-25	1,163 -54	406 -48	757 -6
Average	1,112	492	620

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 63.71%. The percentage was 72.22% 10 years ago and Mitchell Hamline School of Law still has a high percentage of white students. 4.47% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.15% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.03% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 72.22% to 63.71%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.08% to 4.47%. Black student enrollment increased from 4.20% to 10.15%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 4.61% to 9.03%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5728 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4723 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Mitchell Hamline School of Law over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	6	8	31	34	0	533	33
2016-17	10	42	54	51	1	637	38
2017-18	16	48	81	68	1	763	34
2018-19	15	59	87	76	2	812	31
2019-20	16	47	87	84	4	837	26
2020-21	13	56	88	83	6	879	27
2021-22	19	43	92	83	3	870	21
2022-23	27	49	96	89	3	829	13
2023-24	40	51	114	99	3	819	2
2024-25	33	52	118	105	4	741	2
Average	20	46	85	77	3	772	23