Enrollment Trends at VWC

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,498 where 1,853 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 1,853 students in 2025 and was lowest at 1,324 in 2022. Overall, enrollment rose from 1,441 to 1,853 students, a net gain of 412 (28.6%).

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

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• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
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Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,441	1,441	515	926	0	0	0
2016-17	1,374 -67	1,374 -67	521 6	853 -73	0	0	0
2017-18	1,470 96	1,436 62	578 57	858 5	34 34	13 13	21 21
2018-19	1,437 -33	1,351 -85	554 -24	797 -61	86 52	34 21	52 31
2019-20	1,487 50	1,387 36	574 20	813 16	100 14	43 9	57 5
2020-21	1,347 -140	1,274 -113	516 -58	758 -55	73 -27	31 -12	42 -15
2021-22	1,324 -23	1,241 -33	487 -29	754 -4	83 10	34 3	49 7
2022-23	1,538 214	1,479 238	652 165	827 73	59 -24	18 -16	41 -8
2023-24	1,711 173	1,626 147	712 60	914 87	85 26	34 16	51 10
2024-25	1,853 142	1,749 123	830 118	919 5	104 19	36 2	68 17
Average	1,498	1,436	594	842	62	24	38

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,436 where 1,749 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 Virginia Wesleyan University 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	1,441	1,360	491	869	81	24	57
2016-17	1,374	1,319	500	819	55	21	34
2017-18	1,436	1,354	545	809	82	33	49
2018-19	1,351	1,262	526	736	89	28	61
2019-20	1,387	1,245	518	727	142	56	86
2020-21	1,274	1,188	488	700	86	28	58
2021-22	1,241	1,108	439	669	133	48	85
2022-23	1,479	1,095	455	640	384	197	187
2023-24	1,626	1,180	522	658	446	190	256
2024-25	1,749	1,227	528	699	522	302	220
Average	1,436	1,436	501	733	1,436	93	109

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 62 where 104 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 Virginia Wesleyan University 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2016-17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017-18	34	6	2	4	28	11	17
2018-19	86	17	7	10	69	27	42
2019-20	100	6	2	4	94	41	53
2020-21	73	11	5	6	62	26	36
2021-22	83	20	8	12	63	26	37
2022-23	59	20	4	16	39	14	25
2023-24	85	34	9	25	51	25	26
2024-25	104	40	14	26	64	22	42
Average	62	62	5	10	62	19	28

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 32.70% and the percentage of black students is 15.22% at Virginia Wesleyan University. 2.27% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 6.31% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 52.88% to 32.70%. Asian enrollment grew from 1.39% to 2.27%. Black student enrollment decreased from 23.94% to 15.22%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 7.36% to 6.31%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.8639 which indicates that highly diverse. This increased from 0.6546 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Virginia Wesleyan University 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	9	20	345	106	1	762	77
2016-17	14	17	340	111	3	683	84
2017-18	14	22	379	124	2	706	106
2018-19	9	24	352	106	15	765	84
2019-20	8	31	342	113	8	786	100
2020-21	8	27	324	130	6	725	81
2021-22	10	27	334	121	5	678	83
2022-23	15	40	321	126	0	668	69
2023-24	26	41	318	136	0	723	84
2024-25	21	42	282	117	0	606	69
Average	13	29	334	119	4	710	84