Enrollment Trends at Ottawa

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 824 where 999 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

87.09% of total students is undergraduate students and 12.91% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 240 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 95 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.62 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Ottawa than female students.

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

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	664	630	381	249	34	17	17
2016-17	685 21	643 13	395 14	248 -1	42 8	23 6	19 2
2017-18	727 42	671 28	395	276 28	56 14	34 11	22 3
2018-19	754 27	706 35	413 18	293 17	48 -8	28 -6	20 -2
2019-20	731 -23	673 -33	413	260 -33	58 10	40 12	18 -2
2020-21	797 66	720 47	436 23	284 24	77 19	47 7	30 12
2021-22	879 82	786 66	474 38	312 28	93 16	66 19	27 -3
2022-23	953 74	853 67	541 67	312	100 7	61 -5	39 12
2023-24	1,055 102	936 83	590 49	346 34	119 19	64 3	55 16
2024-25	999 -56	870 -66	538 -52	332 -14	129 10	77 13	52 -3
Average	824	749	458	291	76	46	30

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 749 where 870 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-Ottawa 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	630	614	372	242	16	9	7
2016-17	643	621	381	240	22	14	8
2017-18	671	646	375	271	25	20	5
2018-19	706	671	391	280	35	22	13
2019-20	673	645	392	253	28	21	7
2020-21	720	677	405	272	43	31	12
2021-22	786	728	428	300	58	46	12
2022-23	853	776	488	288	77	53	24
2023-24	936	888	558	330	48	32	16
2024-25	870	811	493	318	59	45	14
Average	749	749	428	279	749	29	12

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 76 where 129 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-Ottawa 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	34	0	0	0	34	17	17
2016-17	42	0	0	0	42	23	19
2017-18	56	2	0	2	54	34	20
2018-19	48	1	1	0	47	27	20
2019-20	58	12	9	3	46	31	15
2020-21	77	14	10	4	63	37	26
2021-22	93	82	58	24	11	8	3
2022-23	100	92	55	37	8	6	2
2023-24	119	105	57	48	14	7	7
2024-25	129	123	74	49	6	3	3
Average	76	76	26	17	76	19	13

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 48.75% and the percentage of black students is 15.02% at Ottawa University-Ottawa. 3.10% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 18.22% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 61.90% to 48.75%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.60% to 3.10%. Black student enrollment increased from 12.50% to 15.02%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.71% to 18.22%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7028 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.5973 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-Ottawa 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	33	4	83	18	2	411	18
2016-17	28	4	81	34	3	460	25
2017-18	14	25	88	72	3	433	37
2018-19	19	9	107	91	4	414	23
2019-20	12	7	96	87	3	432	13
2020-21	11	8	92	118	4	446	12
2021-22	7	10	62	124	4	515	7
2022-23	13	12	161	156	10	482	64
2023-24	21	27	156	170	5	553	57
2024-25	26	31	150	182	4	487	46
Average	18	14	108	105	4	463	30