Enrollment Trends at Washington Adventist

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 914 where 612 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

83.82% of total students is undergraduate students and 16.18% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 364 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 68 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.34 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in Washington Adventist than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Washington Adventist 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	1,044	877	388	489	167	49	118
2016-17	1,090 46	911 34	371 -17	540 51	179 12	54 5	125 7
2017-18	1,069 -21	873 -38	332 -39	541 1	196 17	64 10	132 7
2018-19	1,131 62	960 87	352 20	608 67	171 -25	55 -9	116 -16
2019-20	1,078 -53	945 -15	315 -37	630 22	133 -38	34 -21	99 -17
2020-21	968 -110	845 -100	270 -45	575 -55	123 -10	25 -9	98 -1
2021-22	785 -183	690 -155	234 -36	456 -119	95 -28	24 -1	71 -27
2022-23	671 -114	582 -108	210 -24	372 -84	89 -6	25 1	64 -7
2023-24	695 24	605 23	249 39	356 -16	90 1	24 -1	66 2
2024-25	612 -83	513 -92	225 -24	288 -68	99 9	37 13	62 -4
Average	914	780	295	486	134	39	95

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 780 where 513 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 Washington Adventist 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	877	659	309	350	218	79	139
2016-17	911	698	295	403	213	76	137
2017-18	873	655	254	401	218	78	140
2018-19	960	749	265	484	211	87	124
2019-20	945	723	241	482	222	74	148
2020-21	845	624	195	429	221	75	146
2021-22	690	481	156	325	209	78	131
2022-23	582	424	153	271	158	57	101
2023-24	605	444	187	257	161	62	99
2024-25	513	408	187	221	105	38	67
Average	780	780	224	362	780	70	123

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 134 where 99 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 Washington Adventist 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	167	70	18	52	97	31	66
2016-17	179	80	22	58	99	32	67
2017-18	196	57	21	36	139	43	96
2018-19	171	63	22	41	108	33	75
2019-20	133	48	11	37	85	23	62
2020-21	123	17	3	14	106	22	84
2021-22	95	21	5	16	74	19	55
2022-23	89	22	5	17	67	20	47
2023-24	90	29	5	24	61	19	42
2024-25	99	46	17	29	53	20	33
Average	134	134	13	32	134	26	63

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 6.54% and the percentage of black students is 34.97% at Washington Adventist University. 2.12% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 21.73% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 17.24% to 6.54%. Asian enrollment declined from 6.90% to 2.12%. Black student enrollment decreased from 46.65% to 34.97%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 12.07% to 21.73%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.8233 which indicates that highly diverse. This increased from 0.7331 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Washington Adventist 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	10	72	487	126	5	180	12
2016-17	9	72	467	116	2	90	22
2017-18	5	61	499	143	2	100	21
2018-19	4	36	499	180	2	72	19
2019-20	3	37	486	182	1	50	21
2020-21	2	34	425	171	0	44	18
2021-22	1	27	360	144	3	29	19
2022-23	1	19	263	147	1	30	18
2023-24	3	16	263	145	7	29	25
2024-25	1	13	214	133	6	40	30
Average	4	39	396	149	3	66	21