Enrollment Trends at Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,164 where 1,352 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

90.31% of total students is undergraduate students and 9.69% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 484 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 55 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.21 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	813	737	409	328	76	31	45
2016-17	966 153	882 145	449 40	433 105	84 8	32 1	52 7
2017-18	1,116 150	1,020 138	444 -5	576 143	96 12	28 -4	68 16
2018-19	1,155 39	1,043 23	500 56	543 -33	112 16	34 6	78 10
2019-20	1,130 -25	1,014 -29	460 -40	554 11	116 4	35 1	81 3
2020-21	1,215 85	1,044 30	465 5	579 25	171 55	58 23	113 32
2021-22	1,323 108	1,136 92	502 37	634 55	187 16	58	129 16
2022-23	1,222 -101	1,086 -50	473 -29	613 -21	136 -51	45 -13	91 -38
2023-24	1,343 121	1,187 101	563 90	624 11	156 20	49 4	107 16
2024-25	1,352 9	1,221 34	575 12	646 22	131 -25	37 -12	94 -13
Average	1,164	1,037	484	553	127	41	86

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,037 where 1,221 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 University-Center for Online and Extended Education 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	737	433	247	186	304	162	142
2016-17	882	401	190	211	481	259	222
2017-18	1,020	417	186	231	603	258	345
2018-19	1,043	455	218	237	588	282	306
2019-20	1,014	413	179	234	601	281	320
2020-21	1,044	393	190	203	651	275	376
2021-22	1,136	378	155	223	758	347	411
2022-23	1,086	317	115	202	769	358	411
2023-24	1,187	302	135	167	885	428	457
2024-25	1,221	280	130	150	941	445	496
Average	1,037	1,037	175	204	1,037	310	349

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 127 where 131 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 University-Center for Online and Extended Education 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	76	49	18	31	27	13	14
2016-17	84	55	17	38	29	15	14
2017-18	96	58	10	48	38	18	20
2018-19	112	62	17	45	50	17	33
2019-20	116	79	20	59	37	15	22
2020-21	171	96	27	69	75	31	44
2021-22	187	82	18	64	105	40	65
2022-23	136	55	19	36	81	26	55
2023-24	156	52	13	39	104	36	68
2024-25	131	42	7	35	89	30	59
Average	127	127	17	46	127	24	39

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 59.69%. The percentage was 48.22% 10 years ago and Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education still has a high percentage of white students. 8.06% of enrolled students is Asian and 4.88% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.25% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 48.22% to 59.69%. Asian enrollment grew from 4.31% to 8.06%. Black student enrollment decreased from 6.40% to 4.88%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.63% to 9.25%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6132 which indicates that moderately diverse. This decreased from 0.7539 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education 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	11	35	52	62	13	392	31
2016-17	9	51	63	76	12	404	36
2017-18	9	48	60	77	9	542	41
2018-19	5	66	54	90	13	549	48
2019-20	8	45	48	78	17	478	50
2020-21	10	31	42	64	9	395	43
2021-22	8	32	40	61	16	425	34
2022-23	1	62	56	118	6	725	94
2023-24	1	41	68	101	5	528	92
2024-25	0	109	66	125	14	807	154
Average	6	52	55	85	11	525	62