Enrollment Trends at Peirce

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,186 where 929 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

86.01% of total students is undergraduate students and 13.99% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 844 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 65 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.22 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Peirce than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Peirce College since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,708	1,643	461	1,182	65	16	49
2016-17	1,563 -145	1,491 -152	431 -30	1,060 -122	72 7	21 5	51 2
2017-18	1,478 -85	1,389 -102	393 -38	996 -64	89 17	25 4	64 13
2018-19	1,357 -121	1,271 -118	362 -31	909 -87	86 -3	14 -11	72 8
2019-20	1,178 -179	1,089 -182	325 -37	764 -145	89 3	16 2	73 1
2020-21	1,046 -132	947 -142	253 -72	694 -70	99 10	22 6	77 4
2021-22	875 -171	788 -159	210 -43	578 -116	87 -12	21 -1	66 -11
2022-23	856 -19	762 -26	183 -27	579 1	94 7	16 -5	78 12
2023-24	872 16	790 28	192 9	598 19	82 -12	18 2	64 -14
2024-25	929 57	799 9	195 3	604 6	130 48	25 7	105 41
Average	1,186	1,097	301	796	89	19	70

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,097 where 799 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 Peirce College 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	1,643	304	123	181	1,339	338	1,001
2016-17	1,491	318	121	197	1,173	310	863
2017-18	1,389	307	125	182	1,082	268	814
2018-19	1,271	278	102	176	993	260	733
2019-20	1,089	297	113	184	792	212	580
2020-21	947	225	64	161	722	189	533
2021-22	788	182	46	136	606	164	442
2022-23	762	163	38	125	599	145	454
2023-24	790	149	37	112	641	155	486
2024-25	799	135	41	94	664	154	510
Average	1,097	1,097	81	155	1,097	220	642

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 89 where 130 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 Peirce College 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	65	1	0	1	64	16	48
2016-17	72	5	3	2	67	18	49
2017-18	89	11	7	4	78	18	60
2018-19	86	13	1	12	73	13	60
2019-20	89	1	0	1	88	16	72
2020-21	99	12	2	10	87	20	67
2021-22	87	9	1	8	78	20	58
2022-23	94	9	1	8	85	15	70
2023-24	82	11	4	7	71	14	57
2024-25	130	29	7	22	101	18	83
Average	89	89	3	8	89	17	62

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 21.42% and the percentage of black students is 52.21% at Peirce College. 3.01% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 12.27% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 19.79% to 21.42%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.58% to 3.01%. Black student enrollment decreased from 68.68% to 52.21%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.44% to 12.27%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6654 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4834 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Peirce College 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	2	27	1,173	127	3	338	8
2016-17	2	33	1,068	126	3	290	9
2017-18	2	31	952	109	2	262	14
2018-19	5	37	823	93	7	238	19
2019-20	3	36	656	93	2	234	23
2020-21	6	31	571	104	2	199	18
2021-22	4	21	493	98	3	166	11
2022-23	6	27	455	112	3	161	13
2023-24	7	22	477	103	1	174	11
2024-25	5	28	485	114	6	199	10
Average	4	29	715	108	3	226	14