Enrollment Trends at OKWU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,083 where 880 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

86.93% of total students is undergraduate students and 13.07% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 464 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 183 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.92 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in OKWU.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Oklahoma Wesleyan 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	1,527	1,229	440	789	298	113	185
2016-17	1,467 -60	1,192 -37	482 42	710 -79	275 -23	112 -1	163 -22
2017-18	1,204 -263	1,006 -186	425 -57	581 -129	198 -77	66 -46	132 -31
2018-19	1,096 -108	911 -95	386 -39	525 -56	185 -13	58 -8	127 -5
2019-20	1,021 -75	864 -47	364 -22	500 -25	157 -28	48 -10	109 -18
2020-21	934 -87	791 -73	372 8	419 -81	143 -14	48	95 -14
2021-22	902 -32	782 -9	404 32	378 -41	120 -23	34 -14	86 -9
2022-23	848 -54	722 -60	402 -2	320 -58	126 6	43 9	83 -3
2023-24	947 99	824 102	420 18	404 84	123 -3	53 10	70 -13
2024-25	880 -67	765 -59	406 -14	359 -45	115 -8	53	62 -8
Average	1,083	909	410	499	174	63	111

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 909 where 765 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 Oklahoma Wesleyan 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	1,229	593	286	307	636	154	482
2016-17	1,192	634	338	296	558	144	414
2017-18	1,006	609	321	288	397	104	293
2018-19	911	563	284	279	348	102	246
2019-20	864	546	278	268	318	86	232
2020-21	791	568	305	263	223	67	156
2021-22	782	604	336	268	178	68	110
2022-23	722	605	353	252	117	49	68
2023-24	824	581	323	258	243	97	146
2024-25	765	609	339	270	156	67	89
Average	909	909	316	275	909	94	224

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 174 where 115 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 Oklahoma Wesleyan 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	298	7	3	4	291	110	181
2016-17	275	1	1	0	274	111	163
2017-18	198	21	8	13	177	58	119
2018-19	185	5	4	1	180	54	126
2019-20	157	1	0	1	156	48	108
2020-21	143	2	2	0	141	46	95
2021-22	120	4	3	1	116	31	85
2022-23	126	37	10	27	89	33	56
2023-24	123	37	13	24	86	40	46
2024-25	115	32	10	22	83	43	40
Average	174	174	5	9	174	57	102

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 52.16%. The percentage was 59.86% 10 years ago and OKWU still has a high percentage of white students. 1.25% of enrolled students is Asian and 8.30% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 14.20% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 59.86% to 52.16%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.85% to 1.25%. Black student enrollment decreased from 8.64% to 8.30%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.57% to 14.20%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6927 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.6201 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Oklahoma Wesleyan University over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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• 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	160	13	132	85	3	914	0
2016-17	131	16	134	67	4	913	0
2017-18	81	4	108	41	4	770	88
2018-19	80	4	83	48	2	686	104
2019-20	80	3	83	50	3	642	86
2020-21	67	2	83	83	2	546	60
2021-22	60	6	67	93	2	489	48
2022-23	57	8	78	77	4	453	54
2023-24	54	13	59	79	2	483	69
2024-25	46	11	73	125	4	459	64
Average	82	8	90	75	3	636	57