Enrollment Trends at Rush

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,718 where 2,769 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

4.98% of total students is undergraduate students and 95.02% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 4 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 250 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.55 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Rush than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Rush 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	2,515	134	45	89	2,381	586	1,795
2016-17	2,503 -12	122 -12	40 -5	82 -7	2,381	605 19	1,776 -19
2017-18	2,569 66	109 -13	40	69 -13	2,460 79	644 39	1,816 40
2018-19	2,708 139	121 12	45 5	76 7	2,587 127	649 5	1,938 122
2019-20	2,755 47	112 -9	42 -3	70 -6	2,643 56	635 -14	2,008 70
2020-21	2,816 61	104 -8	30 -12	74 4	2,712 69	639 4	2,073 65
2021-22	2,889 73	118 14	29 -1	89 15	2,771 59	649 10	2,122 49
2022-23	2,870 -19	115 -3	25 -4	90 1	2,755 -16	624 -25	2,131 9
2023-24	2,782 -88	120 5	32 7	88 -2	2,662 -93	597 -27	2,065 -66
2024-25	2,769 -13	138 18	35 3	103 15	2,631 -31	573 -24	2,058 -7
Average	2,718	119	36	83	2,598	620	1,978

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 119 where 138 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 Rush 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	134	99	28	71	35	17	18
2016-17	122	83	20	63	39	20	19
2017-18	109	67	23	44	42	17	25
2018-19	121	76	24	52	45	21	24
2019-20	112	66	20	46	46	22	24
2020-21	104	52	11	41	52	19	33
2021-22	118	54	9	45	64	20	44
2022-23	115	48	9	39	67	16	51
2023-24	120	52	16	36	68	16	52
2024-25	138	83	25	58	55	10	45
Average	119	119	19	50	119	18	34

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 2,598 where 2,631 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 Rush 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	2,381	1,317	446	871	1,064	140	924
2016-17	2,381	1,441	471	970	940	134	806
2017-18	2,460	1,514	510	1,004	946	134	812
2018-19	2,587	1,584	509	1,075	1,003	140	863
2019-20	2,643	1,610	495	1,115	1,033	140	893
2020-21	2,712	1,683	496	1,187	1,029	143	886
2021-22	2,771	1,757	527	1,230	1,014	122	892
2022-23	2,755	1,761	501	1,260	994	123	871
2023-24	2,662	1,706	473	1,233	956	124	832
2024-25	2,631	1,679	448	1,231	952	125	827
Average	2,598	2,598	488	1,118	2,598	133	861

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 50.99%. The percentage was 64.49% 10 years ago and Rush still has a high percentage of white students. 15.38% of enrolled students is Asian and 11.01% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 15.89% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 64.49% to 50.99%. Asian enrollment grew from 11.45% to 15.38%. Black student enrollment increased from 5.84% to 11.01%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 8.99% to 15.89%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6777 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5592 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Rush 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	7	288	147	226	5	1,622	43
2016-17	3	299	148	227	1	1,599	59
2017-18	2	321	153	239	1	1,595	71
2018-19	1	280	174	274	3	1,675	61
2019-20	3	240	199	321	3	1,675	50
2020-21	2	224	236	345	1	1,690	47
2021-22	1	340	240	375	0	1,723	53
2022-23	1	400	247	393	0	1,623	58
2023-24	1	433	281	414	3	1,481	76
2024-25	0	426	305	440	4	1,412	98
Average	2	325	213	325	2	1,610	62