Enrollment Trends at Northwestern Health Sciences

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 996 where 1,101 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

39.87% of total students is undergraduate students and 60.13% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 276 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 45 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.80 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Northwestern Health Sciences than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Northwestern Health Sciences 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	870	163	46	117	707	373	334
2016-17	858 -12	176 13	64 18	112 -5	682 -25	357 -16	325 -9
2017-18	826 -32	89 -87	27 -37	62 -50	737 55	361 4	376 51
2018-19	936 110	224 135	65 38	159 97	712 -25	337 -24	375 -1
2019-20	1,052 116	315 91	99 34	216 57	737 25	353 16	384 9
2020-21	1,132 80	379 64	108 9	271 55	753 16	337 -16	416 32
2021-22	1,126 -6	387 8	111 3	276 5	739 -14	335 -2	404 -12
2022-23	1,031 -95	341 -46	96 -15	245 -31	690 -49	296 -39	394 -10
2023-24	1,032 1	366 25	98 2	268 23	666 -24	280 -16	386 -8
2024-25	1,101 69	439 73	108 10	331 63	662 -4	285 5	377 -9
Average	996	288	82	206	709	331	377

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 288 where 439 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 Northwestern Health Sciences 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	163	73	23	50	90	23	67
2016-17	176	81	35	46	95	29	66
2017-18	89	61	19	42	28	8	20
2018-19	224	120	39	81	104	26	78
2019-20	315	128	40	88	187	59	128
2020-21	379	143	42	101	236	66	170
2021-22	387	124	33	91	263	78	185
2022-23	341	115	42	73	226	54	172
2023-24	366	130	37	93	236	61	175
2024-25	439	137	40	97	302	68	234
Average	288	288	35	76	288	47	130

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 709 where 662 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 Northwestern Health Sciences 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	707	663	354	309	44	19	25
2016-17	682	654	352	302	28	5	23
2017-18	737	656	322	334	81	39	42
2018-19	712	688	334	354	24	3	21
2019-20	737	703	350	353	34	3	31
2020-21	753	527	239	288	226	98	128
2021-22	739	689	328	361	50	7	43
2022-23	690	639	287	352	51	9	42
2023-24	666	606	273	333	60	7	53
2024-25	662	582	271	311	80	14	66
Average	709	709	311	330	709	20	47

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 46.50% and the percentage of black students is 8.08% at Northwestern Health Sciences University. 6.09% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 5.36% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 69.89% to 46.50%. Asian enrollment grew from 5.40% to 6.09%. Black student enrollment increased from 1.72% to 8.08%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 1.72% to 5.36%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7699 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.5080 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Northwestern Health Sciences 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	47	15	15	0	608	9
2016-17	7	43	10	7	0	517	5
2017-18	9	32	5	4	0	406	4
2018-19	9	26	11	4	0	353	10
2019-20	10	33	16	3	0	396	8
2020-21	14	21	29	19	0	434	3
2021-22	6	31	25	13	0	449	3
2022-23	3	49	41	28	0	432	8
2023-24	2	63	51	42	1	482	20
2024-25	6	67	89	59	1	512	30
Average	7	41	29	19	0	459	10