Enrollment Trends at Wheeling

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 960 where 774 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

79.97% of total students is undergraduate students and 20.03% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 424 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 187 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.79 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Wheeling than female students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Wheeling 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	1,385	1,043	496	547	342	107	235
2016-17	1,289 -96	945 -98	465 -31	480 -67	344 2	109 2	235
2017-18	1,124 -165	719 -226	372 -93	347 -133	405 61	119 10	286 51
2018-19	1,171 47	861 142	466 94	395 48	310 -95	102 -17	208 -78
2019-20	798 -373	532 -329	263 -203	269 -126	266 -44	97 -5	169 -39
2020-21	857 59	582 50	338 75	244 -25	275 9	110 13	165 -4
2021-22	700 -157	599 17	371 33	228 -16	101 -174	44 -66	57 -108
2022-23	749 49	594 -5	355 -16	239 11	155 54	78 34	77 20
2023-24	748 -1	588 -6	379 24	209 -30	160 5	84 6	76 -1
2024-25	774 26	619 31	359 -20	260 51	155 -5	74 -10	81 5
Average	960	708	386	322	251	92	159

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 708 where 619 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 Wheeling 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	1,043	858	451	407	185	45	140
2016-17	945	790	418	372	155	47	108
2017-18	719	670	355	315	49	17	32
2018-19	861	755	429	326	106	37	69
2019-20	532	423	226	197	109	37	72
2020-21	582	476	290	186	106	48	58
2021-22	599	506	330	176	93	41	52
2022-23	594	506	319	187	88	36	52
2023-24	588	560	374	186	28	5	23
2024-25	619	582	351	231	37	8	29
Average	708	708	354	258	708	32	64

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 251 where 155 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 Wheeling 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	342	146	71	75	196	36	160
2016-17	344	192	77	115	152	32	120
2017-18	405	199	78	121	206	41	165
2018-19	310	196	80	116	114	22	92
2019-20	266	160	71	89	106	26	80
2020-21	275	140	72	68	135	38	97
2021-22	101	5	2	3	96	42	54
2022-23	155	68	36	32	87	42	45
2023-24	160	67	40	27	93	44	49
2024-25	155	146	72	74	9	2	7
Average	251	251	60	72	251	33	87

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 52.20%. The percentage was 77.98% 10 years ago and Wheeling still has a high percentage of white students. 1.16% of enrolled students is Asian and 18.09% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 3.49% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 77.98% to 52.20%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.23% to 1.16%. Black student enrollment increased from 5.13% to 18.09%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.02% to 3.49%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6933 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.3885 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Wheeling 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	5	17	71	28	3	1,080	22
2016-17	6	16	75	30	8	1,006	24
2017-18	5	17	82	26	13	855	25
2018-19	7	17	110	38	9	836	14
2019-20	9	20	106	8	0	555	3
2020-21	7	23	155	46	4	498	0
2021-22	3	14	105	19	2	281	17
2022-23	7	9	92	2	0	217	4
2023-24	1	15	171	42	0	311	2
2024-25	3	9	140	27	5	404	9
Average	5	16	111	27	4	604	12