Enrollment Trends at South University-West Palm Beach

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 674 where 433 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

57.97% of total students is undergraduate students and 42.03% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 692 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 11 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.36 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in South University-West Palm Beach than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at South University-West Palm 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	1,114	943	183	760	171	37	134
2016-17	987 -127	798 -145	155 -28	643 -117	189 18	39 2	150 16
2017-18	861 -126	699 -99	126 -29	573 -70	162 -27	33 -6	129 -21
2018-19	692 -169	556 -143	99 -27	457 -116	136 -26	23 -10	113 -16
2019-20	623 -69	511 -45	85 -14	426 -31	112 -24	17 -6	95 -18
2020-21	515 -108	415 -96	58 -27	357 -69	100 -12	16 -1	84 -11
2021-22	522 7	359 -56	47 -11	312 -45	163 63	34 18	129 45
2022-23	528 6	303 -56	61 14	242 -70	225 62	59 25	166 37
2023-24	468 -60	284 -19	56 -5	228 -14	184 -41	59	125 -41
2024-25	433 -35	251 -33	66 10	185 -43	182 -2	63 4	119 -6
Average	674	512	94	418	162	38	124

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 512 where 251 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-West Palm 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	943	757	146	611	186	37	149
2016-17	798	569	103	466	229	52	177
2017-18	699	535	95	440	164	31	133
2018-19	556	441	76	365	115	23	92
2019-20	511	381	58	323	130	27	103
2020-21	415	289	42	247	126	16	110
2021-22	359	267	36	231	92	11	81
2022-23	303	241	45	196	62	16	46
2023-24	284	206	41	165	78	15	63
2024-25	251	204	53	151	47	13	34
Average	512	512	70	320	512	24	99

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 162 where 182 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-West Palm 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	171	34	4	30	137	33	104
2016-17	189	37	1	36	152	38	114
2017-18	162	23	2	21	139	31	108
2018-19	136	19	6	13	117	17	100
2019-20	112	16	4	12	96	13	83
2020-21	100	66	9	57	34	7	27
2021-22	163	132	28	104	31	6	25
2022-23	225	197	58	139	28	1	27
2023-24	184	181	58	123	3	1	2
2024-25	182	181	62	119	1	1	0
Average	162	162	23	65	162	15	59

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 20.55% and the percentage of black students is 37.18% at South University-West Palm Beach. 3.93% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 21.02% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 23.88% to 20.55%. Asian enrollment declined from 4.22% to 3.93%. Black student enrollment decreased from 46.14% to 37.18%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 21.72% to 21.02%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7731 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6811 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-West Palm Beach 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	1	47	514	242	8	266	0
2016-17	5	31	455	212	11	247	0
2017-18	6	25	381	198	4	217	0
2018-19	4	24	327	161	3	153	0
2019-20	3	21	324	151	4	110	1
2020-21	0	21	262	117	1	91	4
2021-22	1	19	234	120	5	118	7
2022-23	2	28	207	108	2	153	7
2023-24	3	26	182	101	1	120	11
2024-25	1	17	161	91	0	89	11
Average	3	26	305	150	4	156	4