Enrollment Trends at Sul Ross

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,476 where 2,384 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

79.28% of total students is undergraduate students and 20.72% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 257 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 326 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.47 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Sul Ross than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Sul Ross State 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	2,967	2,147	924	1,223	820	326	494
2016-17	2,944 -23	2,256 109	941 17	1,315 92	688 -132	255 -71	433 -61
2017-18	2,946 2	2,294 38	965 24	1,329 14	652 -36	253 -2	399 -34
2018-19	2,739 -207	2,137 -157	892 -73	1,245 -84	602 -50	229 -24	373 -26
2019-20	2,406 -333	1,849 -288	747 -145	1,102 -143	557 -45	193 -36	364 -9
2020-21	2,345 -61	1,789 -60	681 -66	1,108 6	556 -1	175 -18	381 17
2021-22	2,100 -245	1,608 -181	630 -51	978 -130	492 -64	156 -19	336 -45
2022-23	1,987 -113	1,550 -58	650 20	900 -78	437 -55	144 -12	293 -43
2023-24	1,942 -45	1,441 -109	637 -13	804 -96	501 64	152 8	349 56
2024-25	2,384 442	1,890 449	802 165	1,088 284	494 -7	165 13	329 -20
Average	2,476	1,896	787	1,109	580	205	375

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,896 where 1,890 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 Sul Ross State 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	2,147	1,258	617	641	889	307	582
2016-17	2,256	1,378	675	703	878	266	612
2017-18	2,294	1,378	691	687	916	274	642
2018-19	2,137	1,328	643	685	809	249	560
2019-20	1,849	1,179	545	634	670	202	468
2020-21	1,789	1,154	520	634	635	161	474
2021-22	1,608	984	470	514	624	160	464
2022-23	1,550	918	479	439	632	171	461
2023-24	1,441	876	471	405	565	166	399
2024-25	1,890	869	438	431	1,021	364	657
Average	1,896	1,896	555	577	1,896	232	532

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 580 where 494 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 Sul Ross State 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	820	149	71	78	671	255	416
2016-17	688	160	69	91	528	186	342
2017-18	652	147	54	93	505	199	306
2018-19	602	111	40	71	491	189	302
2019-20	557	97	35	62	460	158	302
2020-21	556	100	31	69	456	144	312
2021-22	492	96	37	59	396	119	277
2022-23	437	97	47	50	340	97	243
2023-24	501	75	34	41	426	118	308
2024-25	494	109	49	60	385	116	269
Average	580	580	47	67	580	158	308

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 18.88% and the percentage of black students is 5.49% at Sul Ross State University. 0.21% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 68.20% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 27.37% to 18.88%. Asian enrollment declined from 0.34% to 0.21%. Black student enrollment decreased from 5.90% to 5.49%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 62.99% to 68.20%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4959 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.5245 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Sul Ross State 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	12	10	175	1,869	2	812	46
2016-17	35	14	194	1,834	4	825	0
2017-18	0	5	166	1,817	4	765	81
2018-19	14	13	138	1,695	4	711	80
2019-20	11	11	123	1,548	2	620	67
2020-21	11	12	100	1,546	1	579	59
2021-22	9	8	95	1,381	2	522	59
2022-23	12	6	121	1,327	2	474	28
2023-24	8	10	107	1,297	2	462	27
2024-25	7	5	131	1,626	4	450	35
Average	12	9	135	1,594	3	622	48