Enrollment Trends at Shorter

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,459 where 1,318 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

91.27% of total students is undergraduate students and 8.73% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 174 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 20 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.04 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Shorter.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Shorter 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	1,472	1,377	598	779	95	33	62
2016-17	1,507 35	1,419 42	641 43	778 -1	88 -7	37 4	51 -11
2017-18	1,520 13	1,403 -16	604 -37	799 21	117 29	45 8	72 21
2018-19	1,452 -68	1,352 -51	574 -30	778 -21	100 -17	37 -8	63 -9
2019-20	1,487 35	1,394 42	614 40	780 2	93 -7	34 -3	59 -4
2020-21	1,410 -77	1,306 -88	557 -57	749 -31	104 11	52 18	52 -7
2021-22	1,460 50	1,332 26	590 33	742 -7	128 24	68 16	60 8
2022-23	1,515 55	1,373 41	606 16	767 25	142 14	64 -4	78 18
2023-24	1,447 -68	1,322 -51	598 -8	724 -43	125 -17	55 -9	70 -8
2024-25	1,318 -129	1,203 -119	592 -6	611 -113	115 -10	54 -1	61 -9
Average	1,459	1,348	597	751	111	48	63

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,348 where 1,203 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 Shorter 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	1,377	1,205	534	671	172	64	108
2016-17	1,419	1,214	566	648	205	75	130
2017-18	1,403	1,140	505	635	263	99	164
2018-19	1,352	1,078	472	606	274	102	172
2019-20	1,394	1,112	508	604	282	106	176
2020-21	1,306	1,077	477	600	229	80	149
2021-22	1,332	1,113	505	608	219	85	134
2022-23	1,373	1,063	497	566	310	109	201
2023-24	1,322	1,031	490	541	291	108	183
2024-25	1,203	983	507	476	220	85	135
Average	1,348	1,348	506	596	1,348	91	155

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 111 where 115 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 Shorter 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	95	36	15	21	59	18	41
2016-17	88	47	23	24	41	14	27
2017-18	117	73	31	42	44	14	30
2018-19	100	59	20	39	41	17	24
2019-20	93	64	25	39	29	9	20
2020-21	104	61	33	28	43	19	24
2021-22	128	103	52	51	25	16	9
2022-23	142	112	50	62	30	14	16
2023-24	125	97	43	54	28	12	16
2024-25	115	85	40	45	30	14	16
Average	111	111	33	41	111	15	22

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 55.24%. The percentage was 61.35% 10 years ago and Shorter still has a high percentage of white students. 0.68% of enrolled students is Asian and 20.49% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.48% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 61.35% to 55.24%. Asian enrollment declined from 0.95% to 0.68%. Black student enrollment decreased from 25.07% to 20.49%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 4.62% to 9.48%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6427 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5581 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Shorter 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	14	369	68	4	903	31
2016-17	3	8	399	72	1	927	39
2017-18	1	10	406	83	1	923	32
2018-19	1	17	345	93	1	866	48
2019-20	3	13	339	94	1	911	46
2020-21	5	19	308	88	1	841	44
2021-22	6	18	295	101	2	926	44
2022-23	9	19	266	142	3	956	49
2023-24	10	18	257	135	1	878	54
2024-25	5	9	270	125	2	728	45
Average	5	15	325	100	2	886	43