Enrollment Trends at OU-Milwaukee

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 181 where 116 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

35.34% of total students is undergraduate students and 64.66% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 117 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 25 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.31 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in OU-Milwaukee than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Ottawa University-Milwaukee since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	208	158	41	117	50	15	35
2016-17	198 -10	160 2	36 -5	124 7	38 -12	9 -6	29 -6
2017-18	206 8	166 6	35 -1	131 7	40 2	9	31 2
2018-19	194 -12	153 -13	30 -5	123 -8	41 1	9	32 1
2019-20	236 42	132 -21	27 -3	105 -18	104 63	39 30	65 33
2020-21	237 1	105 -27	25 -2	80 -25	132 28	49 10	83 18
2021-22	172 -65	89 -16	19 -6	70 -10	83 -49	34 -15	49 -34
2022-23	124 -48	63 -26	7 -12	56 -14	61 -22	21 -13	40 -9
2023-24	116 -8	60 -3	11 4	49 -7	56 -5	19 -2	37 -3
2024-25	116	41 -19	7 -4	34 -15	75 19	28 9	47 10
Average	181	113	24	89	68	23	45

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 113 where 41 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 Ottawa University-Milwaukee 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	158	0	0	0	158	41	117
2016-17	160	0	0	0	160	36	124
2017-18	166	84	19	65	82	16	66
2018-19	153	65	16	49	88	14	74
2019-20	132	36	13	23	96	14	82
2020-21	105	26	3	23	79	22	57
2021-22	89	32	8	24	57	11	46
2022-23	63	12	1	11	51	6	45
2023-24	60	17	5	12	43	6	37
2024-25	41	8	3	5	33	4	29
Average	113	113	7	21	113	17	68

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 68 where 75 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 Ottawa University-Milwaukee 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	50	0	0	0	50	15	35
2016-17	38	0	0	0	38	9	29
2017-18	40	6	2	4	34	7	27
2018-19	41	1	1	0	40	8	32
2019-20	104	9	0	9	95	39	56
2020-21	132	11	1	10	121	48	73
2021-22	83	58	27	31	25	7	18
2022-23	61	36	13	23	25	8	17
2023-24	56	37	11	26	19	8	11
2024-25	75	57	24	33	18	4	14
Average	68	68	8	14	68	15	31

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 33.62% and the percentage of black students is 12.93% at Ottawa University-Milwaukee. 32.76% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 10.34% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 51.44% to 33.62%. Asian enrollment grew from 2.88% to 32.76%. Black student enrollment decreased from 19.23% to 12.93%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 0.00% to 10.34%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7521 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6974 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Ottawa University-Milwaukee 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	1	6	40	0	0	107	2
2016-17	1	2	26	0	0	135	1
2017-18	5	5	35	12	0	128	3
2018-19	4	11	28	18	0	121	4
2019-20	2	66	29	15	0	112	4
2020-21	43	45	20	13	0	99	1
2021-22	1	41	15	11	1	85	1
2022-23	2	26	10	8	0	69	5
2023-24	2	27	11	8	0	57	3
2024-25	1	38	15	12	0	39	1
Average	6	27	23	10	0	95	3