Enrollment Trends at Paul Smith's College

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 763 where 948 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 2 year-over-year increases and 7 decreases. It peaked at 948 students in 2025 and was lowest at 597 in 2024. Overall, enrollment rose from 885 to 948 students, a net gain of 63 (7.1%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	885	885	559	326	0	0	0
2016-17	851 -34	851 -34	551 -8	300 -26	0	0	0
2017-18	771 -80	771 -80	503 -48	268 -32	0	0	0
2018-19	745 -26	745 -26	502 -1	243 -25	0	0	0
2019-20	716 -29	716 -29	474 -28	242 -1	0	0	0
2020-21	681 -35	668 -48	424 -50	244 2	13 13	9 9	4 4
2021-22	745 64	711 43	459 35	252 8	34 21	20 11	14 10
2022-23	686 -59	668 -43	427 -32	241 -11	18 -16	13 -7	5 -9
2023-24	597 -89	582 -86	375 -52	207 -34	15 -3	7 -6	8 3
2024-25	948 351	926 344	535 160	391 184	22 7	13 6	9 1
Average	763	752	481	271	10	6	4

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 752 where 926 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 Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science 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	885	879	555	324	6	4	2
2016-17	851	844	547	297	7	4	3
2017-18	771	760	500	260	11	3	8
2018-19	745	731	495	236	14	7	7
2019-20	716	703	469	234	13	5	8
2020-21	668	650	415	235	18	9	9
2021-22	711	697	453	244	14	6	8
2022-23	668	654	421	233	14	6	8
2023-24	582	577	371	206	5	4	1
2024-25	926	571	362	209	355	173	182
Average	752	752	459	248	752	22	24

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 10 where 22 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 Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017-18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018-19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019-20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020-21	13	12	9	3	1	0	1
2021-22	34	18	9	9	16	11	5
2022-23	18	6	3	3	12	10	2
2023-24	15	6	1	5	9	6	3
2024-25	22	7	2	5	15	11	4
Average	10	10	2	3	10	4	2

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 56.43%. The percentage was 82.26% 10 years ago and Paul Smith's College still has a high percentage of white students. 0.63% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.32% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 0.42% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 82.26% to 56.43%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.34% to 0.63%. Black student enrollment decreased from 2.60% to 2.32%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 4.07% to 0.42%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6800 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.3207 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science 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	3	3	23	36	1	728	14
2016-17	2	4	21	52	0	688	12
2017-18	11	6	25	34	1	668	7
2018-19	9	7	25	31	1	643	8
2019-20	15	7	38	23	1	597	9
2020-21	9	3	39	12	2	534	10
2021-22	11	4	35	9	0	602	9
2022-23	14	6	31	4	0	554	5
2023-24	10	5	19	3	0	506	20
2024-25	10	6	22	4	1	535	27
Average	9	5	28	21	1	606	12