Enrollment Trends at Whitworth

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 2,601 where 2,314 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

80.68% of total students is undergraduate students and 19.32% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 477 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 141 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 Whitworth than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Whitworth 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	2,650	2,344	898	1,446	306	112	194
2016-17	2,634 -16	2,297 -47	920 22	1,377 -69	337 31	109 -3	228 34
2017-18	2,627 -7	2,251 -46	904 -16	1,347 -30	376 39	140 31	236 8
2018-19	2,776 149	2,370 119	936 32	1,434 87	406 30	126 -14	280 44
2019-20	2,814 38	2,417 47	995 59	1,422 -12	397 -9	122 -4	275 -5
2020-21	2,756 -58	2,368 -49	952 -43	1,416 -6	388 -9	115 -7	273 -2
2021-22	2,681 -75	2,309 -59	948 -4	1,361 -55	372 -16	125 10	247 -26
2022-23	2,415 -266	2,047 -262	862 -86	1,185 -176	368 -4	124 -1	244 -3
2023-24	2,345 -70	1,939 -108	863 1	1,076 -109	406 38	130 6	276 32
2024-25	2,314 -31	1,867 -72	839 -24	1,028 -48	447 41	152 22	295 19
Average	2,601	2,221	912	1,309	380	126	255

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 2,221 where 1,867 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 Whitworth 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	2,344	2,303	882	1,421	41	16	25
2016-17	2,297	2,257	906	1,351	40	14	26
2017-18	2,251	2,211	885	1,326	40	19	21
2018-19	2,370	2,304	911	1,393	66	25	41
2019-20	2,417	2,360	978	1,382	57	17	40
2020-21	2,368	2,307	922	1,385	61	30	31
2021-22	2,309	2,253	921	1,332	56	27	29
2022-23	2,047	1,997	834	1,163	50	28	22
2023-24	1,939	1,891	840	1,051	48	23	25
2024-25	1,867	1,833	818	1,015	34	21	13
Average	2,221	2,221	890	1,282	2,221	22	27

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 380 where 447 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 Whitworth 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	306	83	29	54	223	83	140
2016-17	337	124	44	80	213	65	148
2017-18	376	156	65	91	220	75	145
2018-19	406	147	53	94	259	73	186
2019-20	397	153	54	99	244	68	176
2020-21	388	167	60	107	221	55	166
2021-22	372	152	59	93	220	66	154
2022-23	368	162	67	95	206	57	149
2023-24	406	210	79	131	196	51	145
2024-25	447	235	96	139	212	56	156
Average	380	380	61	98	380	65	157

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 64.69%. The percentage was 75.28% 10 years ago and Whitworth still has a high percentage of white students. 3.80% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.38% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 12.92% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 75.28% to 64.69%. Asian enrollment declined from 4.19% to 3.80%. Black student enrollment increased from 2.15% to 2.38%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.47% to 12.92%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5539 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.4219 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Whitworth 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	18	111	57	198	7	1,995	156
2016-17	17	113	52	222	6	1,945	162
2017-18	21	115	53	235	12	1,889	172
2018-19	20	116	59	274	22	1,942	217
2019-20	20	124	60	318	32	1,874	255
2020-21	16	118	64	345	40	1,826	239
2021-22	14	105	65	336	34	1,741	238
2022-23	11	96	68	302	40	1,534	219
2023-24	11	94	58	289	38	1,524	212
2024-25	10	88	55	299	22	1,497	216
Average	16	108	59	282	25	1,777	209