Enrollment Trends at Southern California Seminary

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 186 where 161 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

19.88% of total students is undergraduate students and 80.12% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 28 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 46 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.83 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more male students enrolled in Southern California Seminary than female students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Southern California Seminary since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	235	60	39	21	175	99	76
2016-17	244 9	77 17	51 12	26 5	167 -8	111 12	56 -20
2017-18	206 -38	51 -26	35 -16	16 -10	155 -12	95 -16	60 4
2018-19	197 -9	50 -1	37 2	13 -3	147 -8	83 -12	64 4
2019-20	176 -21	43 -7	29 -8	14 1	133 -14	70 -13	63 -1
2020-21	174 -2	50 7	30 1	20 6	124 -9	68 -2	56 -7
2021-22	180 6	46 -4	30	16 -4	134 10	79 11	55 -1
2022-23	153 -27	31 -15	20 -10	11 -5	122 -12	60 -19	62 7
2023-24	138 -15	31	21 1	10 -1	107 -15	53 -7	54 -8
2024-25	161 23	32 1	23 2	9 -1	129 22	65 12	64 10
Average	186	47	32	16	139	78	61

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 47 where 32 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 Southern California Seminary 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	60	17	12	5	43	27	16
2016-17	77	13	10	3	64	41	23
2017-18	51	12	11	1	39	24	15
2018-19	50	12	11	1	38	26	12
2019-20	43	6	5	1	37	24	13
2020-21	50	7	4	3	43	26	17
2021-22	46	5	3	2	41	27	14
2022-23	31	3	1	2	28	19	9
2023-24	31	8	6	2	23	15	8
2024-25	32	10	8	2	22	15	7
Average	47	47	7	2	47	24	13

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 139 where 129 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 Southern California Seminary 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	175	54	24	30	121	75	46
2016-17	167	57	35	22	110	76	34
2017-18	155	67	33	34	88	62	26
2018-19	147	82	38	44	65	45	20
2019-20	133	68	33	35	65	37	28
2020-21	124	59	19	40	65	49	16
2021-22	134	60	25	35	74	54	20
2022-23	122	31	14	17	91	46	45
2023-24	107	50	16	34	57	37	20
2024-25	129	65	31	34	64	34	30
Average	139	139	27	33	139	52	29

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 45.96% and the percentage of black students is 14.29% at Southern California Seminary. 15.53% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 16.15% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 39.57% to 45.96%. Asian enrollment declined from 18.30% to 15.53%. Black student enrollment decreased from 17.45% to 14.29%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 17.02% to 16.15%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7150 which indicates that quite diverse. This decreased from 0.7500 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Southern California Seminary 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	2	43	41	40	0	93	5
2016-17	1	28	49	37	1	107	7
2017-18	1	34	34	23	3	84	6
2018-19	1	29	28	23	3	81	7
2019-20	0	29	26	26	2	79	8
2020-21	0	24	23	24	2	85	8
2021-22	0	26	35	24	1	80	9
2022-23	0	24	18	21	2	79	9
2023-24	0	23	20	18	1	67	7
2024-25	0	25	23	26	0	74	9
Average	1	29	30	26	2	83	8