Enrollment Trends at Parker

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,660 where 2,308 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

26.91% of total students is undergraduate students and 73.09% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 478 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 815 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.31 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Parker than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Parker 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	1,015	143	51	92	872	480	392
2016-17	1,128 113	261 118	69 18	192 100	867 -5	484 4	383 -9
2017-18	1,263 135	330 69	88 19	242 50	933 66	531 47	402 19
2018-19	1,435 172	458 128	124 36	334 92	977 44	561 30	416 14
2019-20	1,536 101	490 32	142 18	348 14	1,046 69	597 36	449 33
2020-21	1,697 161	462 -28	139 -3	323 -25	1,235 189	646 49	589 140
2021-22	1,954 257	466 4	135 -4	331 8	1,488 253	733 87	755 166
2022-23	2,063 109	415 -51	117 -18	298 -33	1,648 160	786 53	862 107
2023-24	2,196 133	504 89	151 34	353 55	1,692 44	803 17	889 27
2024-25	2,308 112	621 117	186 35	435 82	1,687 -5	815 12	872 -17
Average	1,660	415	120	295	1,245	644	601

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 415 where 621 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 Parker 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	143	111	40	71	32	11	21
2016-17	261	200	59	141	61	10	51
2017-18	330	270	77	193	60	11	49
2018-19	458	327	89	238	131	35	96
2019-20	490	320	97	223	170	45	125
2020-21	462	336	108	228	126	31	95
2021-22	466	304	83	221	162	52	110
2022-23	415	314	90	224	101	27	74
2023-24	504	321	101	220	183	50	133
2024-25	621	388	125	263	233	61	172
Average	415	415	87	202	415	33	93

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 1,245 where 1,687 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 Parker 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	872	835	460	375	37	20	17
2016-17	867	841	470	371	26	14	12
2017-18	933	909	519	390	24	12	12
2018-19	977	942	542	400	35	19	16
2019-20	1,046	1,016	579	437	30	18	12
2020-21	1,235	1,216	641	575	19	5	14
2021-22	1,488	1,428	703	725	60	30	30
2022-23	1,648	1,569	756	813	79	30	49
2023-24	1,692	1,603	758	845	89	45	44
2024-25	1,687	1,620	783	837	67	32	35
Average	1,245	1,245	621	577	1,245	23	24

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 51.43%. The percentage was 65.02% 10 years ago and Parker still has a high percentage of white students. 4.64% of enrolled students is Asian and 17.94% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 10.23% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 65.02% to 51.43%. Asian enrollment declined from 6.31% to 4.64%. Black student enrollment increased from 11.53% to 17.94%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 11.63% to 10.23%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6898 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5459 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Parker University 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	10	64	117	118	5	660	21
2016-17	10	69	160	165	5	678	14
2017-18	13	61	180	212	6	735	28
2018-19	11	72	238	252	4	777	37
2019-20	13	73	236	301	3	808	43
2020-21	12	96	227	345	5	875	49
2021-22	29	123	288	267	9	1,010	48
2022-23	39	126	308	176	11	1,138	46
2023-24	56	131	369	152	19	1,181	51
2024-25	53	107	414	236	13	1,187	41
Average	25	92	254	222	8	905	38