Enrollment Trends at UAM

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 3,087 where 2,856 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 5 year-over-year increases and 4 decreases. It peaked at 3,924 students in 2017 and was lowest at 2,645 in 2021. Overall, enrollment dropped from 3,643 to 2,856 students, a net loss of 787 (21.6%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at University of Arkansas at Monticello since 2015.

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	3,643	3,428	1,459	1,969	215	83	132
2016-17	3,924 281	3,669 241	1,514 55	2,155 186	255 40	95 12	160 28
2017-18	3,700 -224	3,417 -252	1,439 -75	1,978 -177	283 28	93 -2	190 30
2018-19	3,111 -589	2,810 -607	1,225 -214	1,585 -393	301 18	105 12	196 6
2019-20	2,855 -256	2,524 -286	1,085 -140	1,439 -146	331 30	105	226 30
2020-21	2,645 -210	2,352 -172	1,025 -60	1,327 -112	293 -38	84 -21	209 -17
2021-22	2,678 33	2,258 -94	948 -77	1,310 -17	420 127	146 62	274 65
2022-23	2,719 41	2,270 12	935 -13	1,335 25	449 29	150 4	299 25
2023-24	2,739 20	2,328 58	940 5	1,388 53	411 -38	137 -13	274 -25
2024-25	2,856 117	2,457 129	989 49	1,468 80	399 -12	141 4	258 -16
Average	3,087	2,751	1,156	1,595	336	114	222

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,751 where 2,457 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 University of Arkansas at Monticello 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	3,428	2,119	1,026	1,093	1,309	433	876
2016-17	3,669	2,176	1,008	1,168	1,493	506	987
2017-18	3,417	2,197	1,016	1,181	1,220	423	797
2018-19	2,810	2,030	952	1,078	780	273	507
2019-20	2,524	1,780	814	966	744	271	473
2020-21	2,352	1,692	788	904	660	237	423
2021-22	2,258	1,622	726	896	636	222	414
2022-23	2,270	1,539	680	859	731	255	476
2023-24	2,328	1,581	683	898	747	257	490
2024-25	2,457	1,614	699	915	843	290	553
Average	2,751	2,751	839	996	2,751	317	600

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 336 where 399 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 University of Arkansas at Monticello 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	215	62	29	33	153	54	99
2016-17	255	89	34	55	166	61	105
2017-18	283	117	40	77	166	53	113
2018-19	301	120	45	75	181	60	121
2019-20	331	141	50	91	190	55	135
2020-21	293	121	37	84	172	47	125
2021-22	420	152	52	100	268	94	174
2022-23	449	151	61	90	298	89	209
2023-24	411	136	50	86	275	87	188
2024-25	399	98	37	61	301	104	197
Average	336	336	44	75	336	70	147

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 54.06%. The percentage was 67.58% 10 years ago and UAM still has a high percentage of white students. 0.42% of enrolled students is Asian and 30.64% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.59% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 67.58% to 54.06%. Asian enrollment declined from 0.74% to 0.42%. Black student enrollment increased from 24.57% to 30.64%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 3.57% to 9.59%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6030 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4809 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at University of Arkansas at Monticello over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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• Interactive Chart
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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	27	895	130	4	2,462	93
2016-17	14	24	972	130	2	2,647	108
2017-18	15	21	935	148	2	2,406	141
2018-19	11	12	878	115	1	1,924	135
2019-20	5	9	753	93	1	1,781	178
2020-21	5	15	743	173	0	1,482	206
2021-22	8	22	738	182	0	1,470	237
2022-23	5	15	759	202	6	1,559	149
2023-24	5	13	803	236	4	1,520	135
2024-25	8	12	875	274	5	1,544	115
Average	9	17	835	168	3	1,880	150