Enrollment Trends at Peru State

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,055 where 1,492 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

87.67% of total students is undergraduate students and 12.33% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 861 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 153 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.29 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Peru State than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Peru State 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	2,506	2,169	869	1,300	337	103	234
2016-17	2,571 65	2,215 46	910 41	1,305 5	356 19	105 2	251 17
2017-18	2,349 -222	2,046 -169	847 -63	1,199 -106	303 -53	82 -23	221 -30
2018-19	2,114 -235	1,851 -195	738 -109	1,113 -86	263 -40	70 -12	193 -28
2019-20	2,109 -5	1,869 18	762 24	1,107 -6	240 -23	69 -1	171 -22
2020-21	1,902 -207	1,634 -235	648 -114	986 -121	268 28	80 11	188 17
2021-22	2,067 165	1,763 129	670 22	1,093 107	304 36	80	224 36
2022-23	1,799 -268	1,569 -194	641 -29	928 -165	230 -74	55 -25	175 -49
2023-24	1,638 -161	1,452 -117	587 -54	865 -63	186 -44	57 2	129 -46
2024-25	1,492 -146	1,308 -144	595 8	713 -152	184 -2	57	127 -2
Average	2,055	1,788	727	1,061	267	76	191

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,788 where 1,308 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 Peru State 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	2,169	1,162	502	660	1,007	367	640
2016-17	2,215	1,194	511	683	1,021	399	622
2017-18	2,046	1,105	470	635	941	377	564
2018-19	1,851	1,078	448	630	773	290	483
2019-20	1,869	1,098	457	641	771	305	466
2020-21	1,634	1,050	441	609	584	207	377
2021-22	1,763	1,130	464	666	633	206	427
2022-23	1,569	997	444	553	572	197	375
2023-24	1,452	926	394	532	526	193	333
2024-25	1,308	940	439	501	368	156	212
Average	1,788	1,788	457	611	1,788	270	450

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 267 where 184 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 Peru State 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	337	110	27	83	227	76	151
2016-17	356	78	23	55	278	82	196
2017-18	303	76	16	60	227	66	161
2018-19	263	62	12	50	201	58	143
2019-20	240	79	21	58	161	48	113
2020-21	268	49	11	38	219	69	150
2021-22	304	63	16	47	241	64	177
2022-23	230	30	4	26	200	51	149
2023-24	186	22	9	13	164	48	116
2024-25	184	42	12	30	142	45	97
Average	267	267	15	46	267	61	145

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 72.05%. The percentage was 77.41% 10 years ago and Peru State still has a high percentage of white students. 0.60% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.06% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 8.51% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 77.41% to 72.05%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.28% to 0.60%. Black student enrollment increased from 6.15% to 11.06%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 4.63% to 8.51%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4593 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3944 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Peru State 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	32	32	154	116	5	1,940	16
2016-17	14	21	153	127	0	1,984	67
2017-18	10	22	138	144	3	1,928	66
2018-19	8	19	133	144	1	1,705	67
2019-20	7	13	132	155	2	1,692	73
2020-21	13	12	142	141	3	1,506	54
2021-22	49	28	204	115	8	1,603	33
2022-23	9	13	137	40	3	1,390	174
2023-24	11	9	143	124	1	1,264	60
2024-25	7	9	165	127	4	1,075	67
Average	16	18	150	123	3	1,609	68