Enrollment Trends at Ottawa University-Surprise

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 8 years is 964 where 912 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

91.78% of total students is undergraduate students and 8.22% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 239 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 18 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.53 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Ottawa University-Surprise than female students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Ottawa University-Surprise since 2018.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2018-19	655	598	340	258	57	30	27
2019-20	806 151	721 123	444 104	277 19	85 28	43 13	42 15
2020-21	831 25	726 5	444	282 5	105 20	55 12	50 8
2021-22	972 141	896 170	508 64	388 106	76 -29	42 -13	34 -16
2022-23	1,736 764	1,106 210	605 97	501 113	630 554	233 191	397 363
2023-24	836 -900	768 -338	490 -115	278 -223	68 -562	43 -190	25 -372
2024-25	912 76	837 69	549 59	288 10	75 7	47 4	28 3
Average	964	807	483	325	157	70	86

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 8 years is 807 where 837 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-Surprise since 2018.

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

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2018-19	598	553	309	244	45	31	14
2019-20	721	639	390	249	82	54	28
2020-21	726	648	389	259	78	55	23
2021-22	896	817	450	367	79	58	21
2022-23	1,106	889	519	370	217	86	131
2023-24	768	723	461	262	45	29	16
2024-25	837	777	502	275	60	47	13
Average	807	807	431	289	807	51	35

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 8 years is 157 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-Surprise since 2018.

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

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2018-19	57	8	3	5	49	27	22
2019-20	85	20	7	13	65	36	29
2020-21	105	30	16	14	75	39	36
2021-22	76	65	35	30	11	7	4
2022-23	630	540	203	337	90	30	60
2023-24	68	66	41	25	2	2	0
2024-25	75	68	41	27	7	6	1
Average	157	157	49	64	157	21	22

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 36.07% and the percentage of black students is 12.83% at Ottawa University-Surprise. 1.54% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 34.65% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 52.82% to 36.07%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.98% to 1.54%. Black student enrollment decreased from 17.71% to 12.83%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 18.63% to 34.65%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7280 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6533 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-Surprise over the past 8 years (2018-2025).

• 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
	2018-19	6	13	116	122	8	346	20
2019-20	10	19	126	202	12	381	17
2020-21	7	18	78	222	7	395	12
2021-22	4	29	56	260	4	440	6
2022-23	35	223	148	451	13	614	100
2023-24	17	11	85	290	8	341	56
2024-25	24	14	117	316	9	329	60
Average	15	47	104	266	9	407	39