Enrollment Trends at Salem

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 738 where 549 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

84.52% of total students is undergraduate students and 15.48% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 474 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 64 over past 10 years.

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

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• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
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Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,087	938	41	897	149	12	137
2016-17	1,087	931 -7	27 -14	904 7	156 7	15 3	141 4
2017-18	984 -103	824 -107	20 -7	804 -100	160 4	15	145 4
2018-19	842 -142	704 -120	21 1	683 -121	138 -22	10 -5	128 -17
2019-20	709 -133	590 -114	17 -4	573 -110	119 -19	10	109 -19
2020-21	636 -73	492 -98	10 -7	482 -91	144 25	14 4	130 21
2021-22	496 -140	364 -128	7 -3	357 -125	132 -12	12 -2	120 -10
2022-23	469 -27	364	6 -1	358 1	105 -27	9 -3	96 -24
2023-24	519 50	436 72	3 -3	433 75	83 -22	9	74 -22
2024-25	549 30	464 28	2 -1	462 29	85 2	7 -2	78 4
Average	738	611	15	595	127	11	116

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 611 where 464 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 Salem College since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
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Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	938	768	20	748	170	21	149
2016-17	931	719	4	715	212	23	189
2017-18	824	673	5	668	151	15	136
2018-19	704	552	6	546	152	15	137
2019-20	590	473	4	469	117	13	104
2020-21	492	378	4	374	114	6	108
2021-22	364	276	1	275	88	6	82
2022-23	364	279	0	279	85	6	79
2023-24	436	346	2	344	90	1	89
2024-25	464	400	0	400	64	2	62
Average	611	611	5	482	611	11	114

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 127 where 85 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 Salem College since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	149	3	0	3	146	12	134
2016-17	156	3	0	3	153	15	138
2017-18	160	2	0	2	158	15	143
2018-19	138	9	3	6	129	7	122
2019-20	119	8	1	7	111	9	102
2020-21	144	5	0	5	139	14	125
2021-22	132	3	1	2	129	11	118
2022-23	105	1	0	1	104	9	95
2023-24	83	6	3	3	77	6	71
2024-25	85	52	5	47	33	2	31
Average	127	127	1	8	127	10	108

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 47.54% and the percentage of black students is 18.76% at Salem College. 2.19% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 16.03% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 55.11% to 47.54%. Asian enrollment declined from 2.94% to 2.19%. Black student enrollment decreased from 23.92% to 18.76%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 10.86% to 16.03%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7118 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6255 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Salem College over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	2	32	260	118	0	599	33
2016-17	2	20	239	135	0	604	32
2017-18	6	16	190	126	0	557	36
2018-19	4	18	147	109	0	481	34
2019-20	2	13	123	100	0	405	33
2020-21	1	13	108	90	0	329	32
2021-22	6	8	86	62	0	258	36
2022-23	1	10	76	70	0	233	33
2023-24	4	10	99	76	0	228	36
2024-25	15	12	103	88	1	261	3
Average	4	15	143	97	0	396	31