Enrollment Trends at NNU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,018 where 1,635 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

63.79% of total students is undergraduate students and 36.21% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 452 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 120 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.48 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in NNU than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Northwest Nazarene 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	2,207	1,495	636	859	712	268	444
2016-17	2,157 -50	1,450 -45	628 -8	822 -37	707 -5	263 -5	444
2017-18	2,168 11	1,480 30	610 -18	870 48	688 -19	238 -25	450 6
2018-19	2,201 33	1,483 3	634 24	849 -21	718 30	217 -21	501 51
2019-20	2,111 -90	1,423 -60	594 -40	829 -20	688 -30	197 -20	491 -10
2020-21	2,109 -2	1,389 -34	586 -8	803 -26	720 32	197	523 32
2021-22	2,044 -65	1,323 -66	567 -19	756 -47	721 1	205 8	516 -7
2022-23	1,778 -266	1,140 -183	498 -69	642 -114	638 -83	167 -38	471 -45
2023-24	1,774 -4	1,156 16	491 -7	665 23	618 -20	189 22	429 -42
2024-25	1,635 -139	1,043 -113	458 -33	585 -80	592 -26	200 11	392 -37
Average	2,018	1,338	570	768	680	214	466

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,338 where 1,043 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 Northwest Nazarene 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	1,495	1,170	459	711	325	177	148
2016-17	1,450	1,125	455	670	325	173	152
2017-18	1,480	1,125	454	671	355	156	199
2018-19	1,483	1,089	466	623	394	168	226
2019-20	1,423	1,062	447	615	361	147	214
2020-21	1,389	1,086	464	622	303	122	181
2021-22	1,323	1,042	451	591	281	116	165
2022-23	1,140	1,008	452	556	132	46	86
2023-24	1,156	1,014	457	557	142	34	108
2024-25	1,043	940	429	511	103	29	74
Average	1,338	1,338	453	613	1,338	117	155

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 680 where 592 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 Northwest Nazarene 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	712	551	199	352	161	69	92
2016-17	707	552	197	355	155	66	89
2017-18	688	565	185	380	123	53	70
2018-19	718	584	173	411	134	44	90
2019-20	688	558	149	409	130	48	82
2020-21	720	572	149	423	148	48	100
2021-22	721	569	158	411	152	47	105
2022-23	638	216	47	169	422	120	302
2023-24	618	228	49	179	390	140	250
2024-25	592	199	57	142	393	143	250
Average	680	680	136	323	680	78	143

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 72.60%. The percentage was 77.48% 10 years ago and NNU still has a high percentage of white students. 1.59% of enrolled students is Asian and 1.71% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 13.15% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 77.48% to 72.60%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.45% to 1.59%. Black student enrollment decreased from 2.08% to 1.71%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 8.29% to 13.15%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4517 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3917 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Northwest Nazarene 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	13	32	46	183	7	1,710	46
2016-17	13	42	38	181	9	1,700	52
2017-18	12	37	44	181	5	1,734	62
2018-19	10	27	50	184	4	1,772	65
2019-20	6	27	39	209	8	1,639	75
2020-21	11	26	43	231	5	1,623	83
2021-22	10	28	33	227	8	1,571	90
2022-23	12	28	30	209	8	1,365	93
2023-24	15	26	30	220	4	1,256	99
2024-25	11	26	28	215	1	1,187	95
Average	11	30	38	204	6	1,556	76