Enrollment Trends at William Penn

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,415 where 1,425 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

94.60% of total students is undergraduate students and 5.40% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 205 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 5 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.87 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more male students enrolled in William Penn than female students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at William Penn 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	1,635	1,553	821	732	82	46	36
2016-17	1,487 -148	1,426 -127	722 -99	704 -28	61 -21	32 -14	29 -7
2017-18	1,339 -148	1,282 -144	665 -57	617 -87	57 -4	32	25 -4
2018-19	1,279 -60	1,214 -68	675 10	539 -78	65 8	34 2	31 6
2019-20	1,258 -21	1,195 -19	645 -30	550 11	63 -2	33 -1	30 -1
2020-21	1,350 92	1,276 81	683 38	593 43	74 11	41 8	33 3
2021-22	1,372 22	1,304 28	682 -1	622 29	68 -6	42 1	26 -7
2022-23	1,473 101	1,404 100	694 12	710 88	69 1	46 4	23 -3
2023-24	1,536 63	1,449 45	736 42	713 3	87 18	50 4	37 14
2024-25	1,425 -111	1,348 -101	716 -20	632 -81	77 -10	47 -3	30 -7
Average	1,415	1,345	704	641	70	40	30

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,345 where 1,348 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 William Penn 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	1,553	1,415	768	647	138	53	85
2016-17	1,426	1,121	616	505	305	106	199
2017-18	1,282	1,068	597	471	214	68	146
2018-19	1,214	1,032	605	427	182	70	112
2019-20	1,195	1,091	613	478	104	32	72
2020-21	1,276	1,181	645	536	95	38	57
2021-22	1,304	1,210	647	563	94	35	59
2022-23	1,404	1,290	656	634	114	38	76
2023-24	1,449	1,337	695	642	112	41	71
2024-25	1,348	1,241	668	573	107	48	59
Average	1,345	1,345	651	548	1,345	53	94

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 70 where 77 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 William Penn 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	82	82	46	36	0	0	0
2016-17	61	25	12	13	36	20	16
2017-18	57	12	5	7	45	27	18
2018-19	65	19	7	12	46	27	19
2019-20	63	19	9	10	44	24	20
2020-21	74	42	24	18	32	17	15
2021-22	68	42	30	12	26	12	14
2022-23	69	43	32	11	26	14	12
2023-24	87	56	29	27	31	21	10
2024-25	77	36	22	14	41	25	16
Average	70	70	22	16	70	19	14

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 57.12%. The percentage was 62.75% 10 years ago and William Penn still has a high percentage of white students. 0.21% of enrolled students is Asian and 16.91% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 9.26% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 62.75% to 57.12%. Asian enrollment declined from 1.53% to 0.21%. Black student enrollment decreased from 17.00% to 16.91%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 7.77% to 9.26%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.6329 which indicates that moderately diverse. This increased from 0.5707 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at William Penn University 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	12	25	278	127	8	1,026	26
2016-17	11	22	242	134	9	923	26
2017-18	10	19	255	119	4	791	23
2018-19	10	22	268	123	6	734	32
2019-20	10	13	258	99	6	682	65
2020-21	7	11	241	141	3	752	52
2021-22	7	12	231	142	9	764	50
2022-23	9	14	232	140	14	853	66
2023-24	15	7	251	154	14	868	85
2024-25	12	3	241	132	8	814	85
Average	10	15	250	131	8	821	51