Enrollment Trends at West Virginia Wesleyan

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,215 where 1,055 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

92.04% of total students is undergraduate students and 7.96% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 418 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 45 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 1.12 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in West Virginia Wesleyan than male students.

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

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

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,518	1,389	629	760	129	29	100
2016-17	1,542 24	1,396 7	631 2	765 5	146 17	37 8	109 9
2017-18	1,449 -93	1,320 -76	582 -49	738 -27	129 -17	32 -5	97 -12
2018-19	1,294 -155	1,180 -140	537 -45	643 -95	114 -15	27 -5	87 -10
2019-20	1,226 -68	1,131 -49	505 -32	626 -17	95 -19	23 -4	72 -15
2020-21	1,066 -160	979 -152	451 -54	528 -98	87 -8	22 -1	65 -7
2021-22	1,054 -12	982 3	456 5	526 -2	72 -15	17 -5	55 -10
2022-23	951 -103	889 -93	429 -27	460 -66	62 -10	21 4	41 -14
2023-24	991 40	938 49	468 39	470 10	53 -9	24 3	29 -12
2024-25	1,055 64	971 33	473 5	498 28	84 31	25 1	59 30
Average	1,215	1,118	516	601	97	26	71

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,118 where 971 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 Wesleyan College 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	1,389	1,363	614	749	26	15	11
2016-17	1,396	1,367	618	749	29	13	16
2017-18	1,320	1,289	567	722	31	15	16
2018-19	1,180	1,162	528	634	18	9	9
2019-20	1,131	1,118	499	619	13	6	7
2020-21	979	971	448	523	8	3	5
2021-22	982	970	451	519	12	5	7
2022-23	889	877	421	456	12	8	4
2023-24	938	906	454	452	32	14	18
2024-25	971	949	466	483	22	7	15
Average	1,118	1,118	507	591	1,118	10	11

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 97 where 84 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 Wesleyan College 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	129	115	28	87	14	1	13
2016-17	146	134	34	100	12	3	9
2017-18	129	120	32	88	9	0	9
2018-19	114	104	27	77	10	0	10
2019-20	95	83	22	61	12	1	11
2020-21	87	81	21	60	6	1	5
2021-22	72	65	17	48	7	0	7
2022-23	62	48	19	29	14	2	12
2023-24	53	48	21	27	5	3	2
2024-25	84	80	24	56	4	1	3
Average	97	97	25	63	97	1	8

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 67.20%. The percentage was 78.72% 10 years ago and West Virginia Wesleyan still has a high percentage of white students. 1.04% of enrolled students is Asian and 12.23% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.31% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 78.72% to 67.20%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.40% to 1.04%. Black student enrollment increased from 8.63% to 12.23%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.17% to 5.31%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5294 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3715 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at West Virginia Wesleyan College 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	3	6	131	33	3	1,195	43
2016-17	5	2	112	35	2	1,196	53
2017-18	5	2	120	42	1	1,129	51
2018-19	4	4	122	38	0	984	50
2019-20	5	6	113	43	0	931	49
2020-21	5	6	121	44	0	784	41
2021-22	7	11	137	42	2	769	26
2022-23	8	10	128	46	2	670	29
2023-24	6	11	119	55	1	662	33
2024-25	5	11	129	56	4	709	34
Average	5	7	123	43	2	903	41