Enrollment Trends at NCU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 753 where 761 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

68.33% of total students is undergraduate students and 31.67% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 13 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 34 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.47 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in NCU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Bushnell 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	740	533	211	322	207	64	143
2016-17	766 26	566 33	214 3	352 30	200 -7	73 9	127 -16
2017-18	798 32	605 39	237 23	368 16	193 -7	69 -4	124 -3
2018-19	800 2	593 -12	234 -3	359 -9	207 14	62 -7	145 21
2019-20	805 5	592 -1	226 -8	366 7	213 6	53 -9	160 15
2020-21	717 -88	538 -54	209 -17	329 -37	179 -34	55 2	124 -36
2021-22	686 -31	476 -62	198 -11	278 -51	210 31	61 6	149 25
2022-23	699 13	509 33	230 32	279 1	190 -20	61	129 -20
2023-24	758 59	535 26	233 3	302 23	223 33	74 13	149 20
2024-25	761 3	520 -15	238 5	282 -20	241 18	70 -4	171 22
Average	753	547	223	324	206	64	142

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 547 where 520 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 Bushnell 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	533	421	171	250	112	40	72
2016-17	566	421	162	259	145	52	93
2017-18	605	444	181	263	161	56	105
2018-19	593	417	165	252	176	69	107
2019-20	592	450	180	270	142	46	96
2020-21	538	425	163	262	113	46	67
2021-22	476	401	175	226	75	23	52
2022-23	509	452	212	240	57	18	39
2023-24	535	478	215	263	57	18	39
2024-25	520	459	223	236	61	15	46
Average	547	547	185	252	547	38	72

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 206 where 241 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 Bushnell 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	207	79	25	54	128	39	89
2016-17	200	109	34	75	91	39	52
2017-18	193	95	23	72	98	46	52
2018-19	207	121	27	94	86	35	51
2019-20	213	116	19	97	97	34	63
2020-21	179	152	46	106	27	9	18
2021-22	210	122	36	86	88	25	63
2022-23	190	164	52	112	26	9	17
2023-24	223	186	58	128	37	16	21
2024-25	241	202	58	144	39	12	27
Average	206	206	38	97	206	26	45

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 64.65%. The percentage was 78.51% 10 years ago and NCU still has a high percentage of white students. 3.15% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.10% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 15.37% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 78.51% to 64.65%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.89% to 3.15%. Black student enrollment decreased from 2.97% to 2.10%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.16% to 15.37%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5500 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.3749 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Bushnell 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	14	22	53	11	581	25
2016-17	26	25	35	54	9	580	26
2017-18	23	42	34	51	9	569	50
2018-19	15	22	34	49	6	557	73
2019-20	19	22	29	37	8	567	75
2020-21	21	27	28	39	10	493	55
2021-22	15	18	21	80	13	473	44
2022-23	10	24	24	34	19	524	50
2023-24	5	25	19	102	12	488	64
2024-25	5	24	16	117	12	492	62
Average	16	24	26	62	11	532	52