Enrollment Trends at Notre Dame

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 10 years is 1,699 where 1,446 students are attending the school for the academic year 2023-2024.

92.39% of total students is undergraduate students and 7.61% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 566 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 82 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.19 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Notre Dame than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Notre Dame College since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,094	1,902	861	1,041	192	46	146
2016-17	1,985 -109	1,802 -100	833 -28	969 -72	183 -9	42 -4	141 -5
2017-18	1,901 -84	1,736 -66	814 -19	922 -47	165 -18	45 3	120 -21
2018-19	1,700 -201	1,571 -165	741 -73	830 -92	129 -36	34 -11	95 -25
2019-20	1,612 -88	1,510 -61	714 -27	796 -34	102 -27	27 -7	75 -20
2020-21	1,585 -27	1,470 -40	701 -13	769 -27	115 13	31 4	84 9
2021-22	1,522 -63	1,376 -94	639 -62	737 -32	146 31	54 23	92 8
2022-23	1,444 -78	1,329 -47	619 -20	710 -27	115 -31	45 -9	70 -22
2023-24	1,446 2	1,336 7	608 -11	728 18	110 -5	52 7	58 -12
Average	1,699	1,559	726	834	140	42	98

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 10 years is 1,559 where 1,336 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2023-2024. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Notre Dame College 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	1,902	1,373	729	644	529	132	397
2016-17	1,802	1,255	674	581	547	159	388
2017-18	1,736	1,216	651	565	520	163	357
2018-19	1,571	1,163	615	548	408	126	282
2019-20	1,510	1,130	586	544	380	128	252
2020-21	1,470	1,122	582	540	348	119	229
2021-22	1,376	953	507	446	423	132	291
2022-23	1,329	958	501	457	371	118	253
2023-24	1,336	931	472	459	405	136	269
Average	1,559	1,559	591	532	1,559	135	302

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 10 years is 140 where 110 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2023-2024. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Notre Dame College since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	192	0	0	0	192	46	146
2016-17	183	0	0	0	183	42	141
2017-18	165	0	0	0	165	45	120
2018-19	129	0	0	0	129	34	95
2019-20	102	0	0	0	102	27	75
2020-21	115	0	0	0	115	31	84
2021-22	146	0	0	0	146	54	92
2022-23	115	0	0	0	115	45	70
2023-24	110	0	0	0	110	52	58
Average	140	140	0	0	140	42	98

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 49.24% and the percentage of black students is 24.83% at Notre Dame College. 0.83% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 5.19% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 60.70% to 49.24%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.15% to 0.83%. Black student enrollment increased from 24.07% to 24.83%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.96% to 5.19%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6890 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5712 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Notre Dame College over the past 10 years (2015-2024).

• 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	8	24	504	83	6	1,271	58
2016-17	6	21	474	82	4	1,230	52
2017-18	3	18	480	83	4	1,120	55
2018-19	4	17	440	83	4	998	46
2019-20	1	13	447	74	3	919	59
2020-21	4	13	445	78	4	890	60
2021-22	2	13	389	56	2	863	35
2022-23	2	11	357	62	2	774	41
2023-24	2	12	359	75	2	712	93
Average	4	16	433	75	3	975	55