Enrollment Trends at WVSU

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 3,591 where 3,246 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 4 year-over-year increases and 5 decreases. It peaked at 4,120 students in 2020 and was lowest at 3,166 in 2016. Overall, enrollment rose from 3,166 to 3,246 students, a net gain of 80 (2.5%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at West Virginia State 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	3,166	3,107	1,385	1,722	59	32	27
2016-17	3,514 348	3,433 326	1,486 101	1,947 225	81 22	32	49 22
2017-18	3,879 365	3,755 322	1,595 109	2,160 213	124 43	48 16	76 27
2018-19	3,692 -187	3,571 -184	1,456 -139	2,115 -45	121 -3	49 1	72 -4
2019-20	4,120 428	4,009 438	1,625 169	2,384 269	111 -10	40 -9	71 -1
2020-21	3,638 -482	3,502 -507	1,472 -153	2,030 -354	136 25	54 14	82 11
2021-22	3,415 -223	3,281 -221	1,376 -96	1,905 -125	134 -2	56 2	78 -4
2022-23	3,785 370	3,634 353	1,511 135	2,123 218	151 17	59 3	92 14
2023-24	3,458 -327	3,322 -312	1,349 -162	1,973 -150	136 -15	66 7	70 -22
2024-25	3,246 -212	3,110 -212	1,302 -47	1,808 -165	136	59 -7	77 7
Average	3,591	3,472	1,456	2,017	119	50	69

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 3,472 where 3,110 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 West Virginia State 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	3,107	1,860	848	1,012	1,247	537	710
2016-17	3,433	1,797	858	939	1,636	628	1,008
2017-18	3,755	1,786	822	964	1,969	773	1,196
2018-19	3,571	1,644	729	915	1,927	727	1,200
2019-20	4,009	1,585	677	908	2,424	948	1,476
2020-21	3,502	1,498	679	819	2,004	793	1,211
2021-22	3,281	1,317	604	713	1,964	772	1,192
2022-23	3,634	1,316	585	731	2,318	926	1,392
2023-24	3,322	1,292	572	720	2,030	777	1,253
2024-25	3,110	1,290	562	728	1,820	740	1,080
Average	3,472	3,472	694	845	3,472	762	1,172

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 119 where 136 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 West Virginia State University since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	59	31	20	11	28	12	16
2016-17	81	33	17	16	48	15	33
2017-18	124	44	23	21	80	25	55
2018-19	121	50	24	26	71	25	46
2019-20	111	48	21	27	63	19	44
2020-21	136	62	31	31	74	23	51
2021-22	134	75	37	38	59	19	40
2022-23	151	82	40	42	69	19	50
2023-24	136	71	37	34	65	29	36
2024-25	136	75	38	37	61	21	40
Average	119	119	29	28	119	21	41

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 73.04%. The percentage was 45.86% 10 years ago and WVSU still has a high percentage of white students. 1.29% of enrolled students is Asian and 10.04% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 2.13% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 45.86% to 73.04%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.28% to 1.29%. Black student enrollment increased from 9.48% to 10.04%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 0.63% to 2.13%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4549 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.7763 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at West Virginia State 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	10	9	300	20	0	1,452	208
2016-17	150	19	346	47	5	1,866	239
2017-18	15	21	344	52	7	2,648	150
2018-19	28	35	299	42	10	2,738	181
2019-20	30	46	311	66	9	3,124	201
2020-21	20	36	319	64	6	2,613	161
2021-22	12	47	308	72	4	2,632	148
2022-23	7	61	312	68	2	2,921	160
2023-24	6	44	255	75	3	2,336	113
2024-25	4	42	326	69	5	2,371	92
Average	28	36	312	58	5	2,470	165