Enrollment Trends at Walla Walla

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,682 where 1,426 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

92.08% of total students is undergraduate students and 7.92% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 343 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 71 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.04 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Walla Walla.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Walla Walla 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	1,840	1,656	826	830	184	35	149
2016-17	1,894 54	1,700 44	858 32	842 12	194 10	48 13	146 -3
2017-18	1,825 -69	1,649 -51	832 -26	817 -25	176 -18	31 -17	145 -1
2018-19	1,854 29	1,653 4	820 -12	833 16	201 25	46 15	155 10
2019-20	1,831 -23	1,650 -3	836 16	814 -19	181 -20	47 1	134 -21
2020-21	1,737 -94	1,545 -105	786 -50	759 -55	192 11	36 -11	156 22
2021-22	1,584 -153	1,402 -143	715 -71	687 -72	182 -10	42 6	140 -16
2022-23	1,432 -152	1,300 -102	670 -45	630 -57	132 -50	28 -14	104 -36
2023-24	1,397 -35	1,266 -34	652 -18	614 -16	131 -1	25 -3	106 2
2024-25	1,426 29	1,313 47	675 23	638 24	113 -18	24 -1	89 -17
Average	1,682	1,513	767	746	169	36	132

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,513 where 1,313 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 Walla Walla 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	1,656	1,556	787	769	100	39	61
2016-17	1,700	1,585	795	790	115	63	52
2017-18	1,649	1,556	794	762	93	38	55
2018-19	1,653	1,563	784	779	90	36	54
2019-20	1,650	1,528	782	746	122	54	68
2020-21	1,545	1,397	720	677	148	66	82
2021-22	1,402	1,236	627	609	166	88	78
2022-23	1,300	1,174	605	569	126	65	61
2023-24	1,266	1,165	609	556	101	43	58
2024-25	1,313	1,222	628	594	91	47	44
Average	1,513	1,513	713	685	1,513	54	61

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 169 where 113 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 Walla Walla 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	184	166	31	135	18	4	14
2016-17	194	169	40	129	25	8	17
2017-18	176	162	26	136	14	5	9
2018-19	201	189	44	145	12	2	10
2019-20	181	125	29	96	56	18	38
2020-21	192	157	26	131	35	10	25
2021-22	182	160	31	129	22	11	11
2022-23	132	115	23	92	17	5	12
2023-24	131	96	19	77	35	6	29
2024-25	113	76	15	61	37	9	28
Average	169	169	28	113	169	8	19

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 46.70% and the percentage of black students is 3.86% at Walla Walla University. 5.05% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 23.63% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 69.89% to 46.70%. Asian enrollment declined from 6.36% to 5.05%. Black student enrollment increased from 2.88% to 3.86%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 14.08% to 23.63%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7155 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.4866 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Walla Walla University 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	19	117	53	259	15	1,286	12
2016-17	28	101	54	272	13	1,247	10
2017-18	19	156	52	280	18	1,193	8
2018-19	20	110	46	242	12	1,311	2
2019-20	10	85	42	330	4	1,082	135
2020-21	8	95	39	328	5	981	153
2021-22	7	65	47	317	7	838	163
2022-23	5	73	44	309	6	759	128
2023-24	3	70	46	319	14	693	127
2024-25	5	72	55	337	15	666	114
Average	12	94	48	299	11	1,006	85