Enrollment Trends at South University-Virginia Beach

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 426 where 258 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

93.02% of total students is undergraduate students and 6.98% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 327 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 107 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 4.06 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in South University-Virginia Beach than male students.

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

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	692	567	129	438	125	21	104
2016-17	643 -49	521 -46	113 -16	408 -30	122 -3	27 6	95 -9
2017-18	564 -79	453 -68	104 -9	349 -59	111 -11	26 -1	85 -10
2018-19	477 -87	369 -84	66 -38	303 -46	108 -3	20 -6	88 3
2019-20	394 -83	312 -57	42 -24	270 -33	82 -26	10 -10	72 -16
2020-21	403 9	325 13	43 1	282 12	78 -4	13 3	65 -7
2021-22	314 -89	254 -71	31 -12	223 -59	60 -18	10 -3	50 -15
2022-23	240 -74	205 -49	28 -3	177 -46	35 -25	5 -5	30 -20
2023-24	270 30	252 47	35 7	217 40	18 -17	8 3	10 -20
2024-25	258 -12	240 -12	45 10	195 -22	18	6 -2	12 2
Average	426	350	64	286	76	15	61

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 350 where 240 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-Virginia Beach 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	567	427	94	333	140	35	105
2016-17	521	396	78	318	125	35	90
2017-18	453	361	78	283	92	26	66
2018-19	369	300	54	246	69	12	57
2019-20	312	234	28	206	78	14	64
2020-21	325	233	35	198	92	8	84
2021-22	254	158	24	134	96	7	89
2022-23	205	152	18	134	53	10	43
2023-24	252	166	21	145	86	14	72
2024-25	240	175	35	140	65	10	55
Average	350	350	47	214	350	17	73

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 76 where 18 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-Virginia Beach 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	125	36	5	31	89	16	73
2016-17	122	34	3	31	88	24	64
2017-18	111	37	9	28	74	17	57
2018-19	108	38	6	32	70	14	56
2019-20	82	30	3	27	52	7	45
2020-21	78	52	9	43	26	4	22
2021-22	60	47	9	38	13	1	12
2022-23	35	27	5	22	8	0	8
2023-24	18	17	7	10	1	1	0
2024-25	18	17	6	11	1	0	1
Average	76	76	6	27	76	8	34

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 14.73% and the percentage of black students is 58.53% at South University-Virginia Beach. 5.81% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 10.47% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 32.95% to 14.73%. Asian enrollment declined from 6.21% to 5.81%. Black student enrollment increased from 44.80% to 58.53%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 9.83% to 10.47%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6205 which indicates that moderately diverse. This decreased from 0.6766 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at South University-Virginia Beach 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	10	43	310	68	14	228	0
2016-17	13	43	303	58	8	202	0
2017-18	7	32	260	51	12	192	0
2018-19	6	21	233	52	5	152	0
2019-20	6	15	180	49	8	131	1
2020-21	3	15	204	53	7	116	3
2021-22	1	11	164	35	4	87	8
2022-23	0	10	141	35	5	37	4
2023-24	0	17	157	30	3	46	8
2024-25	1	15	151	27	3	38	7
Average	5	22	210	46	7	123	3