Enrollment Trends at South University-Tampa

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 836 where 752 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

51.60% of total students is undergraduate students and 48.40% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 198 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 14 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 3.61 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in South University-Tampa than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at South University-Tampa since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	964	586	150	436	378	90	288
2016-17	918 -46	508 -78	143 -7	365 -71	410 32	103 13	307 19
2017-18	883 -35	543 35	139 -4	404 39	340 -70	94 -9	246 -61
2018-19	880 -3	541 -2	130 -9	411 7	339 -1	67 -27	272 26
2019-20	850 -30	536 -5	146 16	390 -21	314 -25	56 -11	258 -14
2020-21	867 17	548 12	121 -25	427 37	319 5	62 6	257 -1
2021-22	809 -58	491 -57	91 -30	400 -27	318 -1	61 -1	257
2022-23	712 -97	421 -70	75 -16	346 -54	291 -27	45 -16	246 -11
2023-24	720 8	390 -31	69 -6	321 -25	330 39	55 10	275 29
2024-25	752 32	388 -2	98 29	290 -31	364 34	65 10	299 24
Average	836	495	116	379	340	70	271

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 495 where 388 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 South University-Tampa 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	586	457	112	345	129	38	91
2016-17	508	368	99	269	140	44	96
2017-18	543	424	105	319	119	34	85
2018-19	541	437	102	335	104	28	76
2019-20	536	421	106	315	115	40	75
2020-21	548	402	97	305	146	24	122
2021-22	491	324	62	262	167	29	138
2022-23	421	313	56	257	108	19	89
2023-24	390	263	42	221	127	27	100
2024-25	388	283	76	207	105	22	83
Average	495	495	86	284	495	31	96

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 340 where 364 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 South University-Tampa 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	378	159	45	114	219	45	174
2016-17	410	123	29	94	287	74	213
2017-18	340	139	38	101	201	56	145
2018-19	339	145	25	120	194	42	152
2019-20	314	138	26	112	176	30	146
2020-21	319	209	40	169	110	22	88
2021-22	318	227	42	185	91	19	72
2022-23	291	193	32	161	98	13	85
2023-24	330	292	52	240	38	3	35
2024-25	364	262	52	210	102	13	89
Average	340	340	38	151	340	32	120

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 29.65% and the percentage of black students is 23.94% at South University-Tampa. 4.39% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 30.32% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 35.68% to 29.65%. Asian enrollment declined from 8.40% to 4.39%. Black student enrollment decreased from 27.18% to 23.94%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 22.20% to 30.32%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7607 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.7424 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at South University-Tampa 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	2	81	262	214	7	344	0
2016-17	3	71	228	203	9	341	0
2017-18	4	63	216	225	8	314	0
2018-19	6	55	211	254	8	304	2
2019-20	4	45	242	249	6	268	1
2020-21	3	45	251	247	7	272	2
2021-22	3	39	213	248	6	271	6
2022-23	3	31	175	222	2	247	12
2023-24	5	36	187	198	3	248	10
2024-25	2	33	180	228	4	223	9
Average	4	50	217	229	6	283	4