Enrollment Trends at Muskingum

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,208 where 1,751 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

86.98% of total students is undergraduate students and 13.02% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 160 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 516 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.27 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Muskingum than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Muskingum 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	2,427	1,683	747	936	744	151	593
2016-17	2,121 -306	1,549 -134	705 -42	844 -92	572 -172	126 -25	446 -147
2017-18	2,369 248	1,558 9	693 -12	865 21	811 239	143 17	668 222
2018-19	2,412 43	1,618 60	716 23	902 37	794 -17	143	651 -17
2019-20	2,370 -42	1,603 -15	700 -16	903 1	767 -27	139 -4	628 -23
2020-21	2,231 -139	1,549 -54	690 -10	859 -44	682 -85	147 8	535 -93
2021-22	2,171 -60	1,580 31	721 31	859	591 -91	125 -22	466 -69
2022-23	2,117 -54	1,484 -96	680 -41	804 -55	633 42	104 -21	529 63
2023-24	2,108 -9	1,524 40	682 2	842 38	584 -49	116 12	468 -61
2024-25	1,751 -357	1,523 -1	703 21	820 -22	228 -356	67 -49	161 -307
Average	2,208	1,567	704	863	641	126	515

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,567 where 1,523 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 Muskingum 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	1,683	1,415	690	725	268	57	211
2016-17	1,549	1,310	652	658	239	53	186
2017-18	1,558	1,363	658	705	195	35	160
2018-19	1,618	1,353	647	706	265	69	196
2019-20	1,603	1,365	636	729	238	64	174
2020-21	1,549	1,350	644	706	199	46	153
2021-22	1,580	1,348	657	691	232	64	168
2022-23	1,484	1,307	635	672	177	45	132
2023-24	1,524	1,279	617	662	245	65	180
2024-25	1,523	1,302	630	672	221	73	148
Average	1,567	1,567	647	693	1,567	57	171

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 641 where 228 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 Muskingum 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	744	171	31	140	573	120	453
2016-17	572	70	17	53	502	109	393
2017-18	811	201	44	157	610	99	511
2018-19	794	168	33	135	626	110	516
2019-20	767	208	42	166	559	97	462
2020-21	682	277	67	210	405	80	325
2021-22	591	219	54	165	372	71	301
2022-23	633	200	44	156	433	60	373
2023-24	584	181	42	139	403	74	329
2024-25	228	114	27	87	114	40	74
Average	641	641	40	141	641	86	374

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 75.96%. The percentage was 61.48% 10 years ago and Muskingum still has a high percentage of white students. 0.57% of enrolled students is Asian and 6.57% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 2.80% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 61.48% to 75.96%. Asian enrollment declined from 0.58% to 0.57%. Black student enrollment increased from 3.54% to 6.57%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 1.40% to 2.80%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4161 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.6201 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Muskingum 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	5	14	86	34	0	1,492	52
2016-17	6	14	74	38	0	1,407	62
2017-18	3	14	79	41	0	1,542	62
2018-19	5	12	91	39	0	1,524	61
2019-20	8	20	88	44	0	1,580	57
2020-21	9	16	101	45	0	1,554	67
2021-22	3	17	113	44	0	1,500	67
2022-23	6	16	123	38	0	1,475	73
2023-24	6	11	114	44	0	1,425	73
2024-25	1	10	115	49	0	1,330	75
Average	5	14	98	42	0	1,483	65