Enrollment Trends at Pfeiffer

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,221 where 889 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

78.29% of total students is undergraduate students and 21.71% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 221 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 514 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.10 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Pfeiffer.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Pfeiffer 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	1,624	917	384	533	707	210	497
2016-17	1,414 -210	848 -69	385 1	463 -70	566 -141	155 -55	411 -86
2017-18	1,306 -108	813 -35	391 6	422 -41	493 -73	138 -17	355 -56
2018-19	1,365 59	900 87	381 -10	519 97	465 -28	131 -7	334 -21
2019-20	1,277 -88	897 -3	364 -17	533 14	380 -85	117 -14	263 -71
2020-21	1,185 -92	812 -85	321 -43	491 -42	373 -7	114 -3	259 -4
2021-22	1,122 -63	744 -68	315 -6	429 -62	378 5	106 -8	272 13
2022-23	1,076 -46	683 -61	322 7	361 -68	393 15	93 -13	300 28
2023-24	954 -122	654 -29	342 20	312 -49	300 -93	73 -20	227 -73
2024-25	889 -65	696 42	384 42	312	193 -107	39 -34	154 -73
Average	1,221	796	359	438	425	118	307

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 796 where 696 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 Pfeiffer 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	917	817	356	461	100	28	72
2016-17	848	739	348	391	109	37	72
2017-18	813	733	359	374	80	32	48
2018-19	900	845	361	484	55	20	35
2019-20	897	837	351	486	60	13	47
2020-21	812	769	305	464	43	16	27
2021-22	744	719	302	417	25	13	12
2022-23	683	657	309	348	26	13	13
2023-24	654	624	327	297	30	15	15
2024-25	696	636	353	283	60	31	29
Average	796	796	337	401	796	22	37

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 425 where 193 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 Pfeiffer 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	707	133	38	95	574	172	402
2016-17	566	124	30	94	442	125	317
2017-18	493	107	22	85	386	116	270
2018-19	465	105	27	78	360	104	256
2019-20	380	78	16	62	302	101	201
2020-21	373	115	23	92	258	91	167
2021-22	378	161	27	134	217	79	138
2022-23	393	139	18	121	254	75	179
2023-24	300	102	9	93	198	64	134
2024-25	193	68	3	65	125	36	89
Average	425	425	21	92	425	96	215

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 57.93%. The percentage was 54.00% 10 years ago and Pfeiffer still has a high percentage of white students. 1.46% of enrolled students is Asian and 20.81% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.11% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 54.00% to 57.93%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.48% to 1.46%. Black student enrollment decreased from 25.80% to 20.81%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.14% to 9.11%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6114 which indicates that moderately diverse. This decreased from 0.6404 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Pfeiffer University 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	6	24	419	51	1	877	21
2016-17	10	17	398	69	1	790	18
2017-18	5	19	351	76	3	773	38
2018-19	5	13	398	97	3	772	43
2019-20	11	16	349	107	4	736	29
2020-21	9	19	307	105	1	692	28
2021-22	11	16	282	109	2	651	30
2022-23	8	23	250	99	2	627	43
2023-24	2	16	222	84	3	561	39
2024-25	4	13	185	81	2	515	30
Average	7	18	316	88	2	699	32