Enrollment Trends at Wittenberg

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,590 where 1,285 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

95.49% of total students is undergraduate students and 4.51% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 638 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 47 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.93 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in Wittenberg.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Wittenberg 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	1,876	1,865	798	1,067	11	3	8
2016-17	1,988 112	1,960 95	872 74	1,088 21	28 17	11 8	17 9
2017-18	1,884 -104	1,857 -103	858 -14	999 -89	27 -1	13 2	14 -3
2018-19	1,801 -83	1,757 -100	791 -67	966 -33	44 17	20 7	24 10
2019-20	1,619 -182	1,577 -180	714 -77	863 -103	42 -2	21 1	21 -3
2020-21	1,488 -131	1,445 -132	672 -42	773 -90	43 1	24 3	19 -2
2021-22	1,326 -162	1,286 -159	588 -84	698 -75	40 -3	21 -3	19
2022-23	1,299 -27	1,258 -28	598 10	660 -38	41 1	16 -5	25 6
2023-24	1,333 34	1,288 30	638 40	650 -10	45 4	22 6	23 -2
2024-25	1,285 -48	1,227 -61	638	589 -61	58 13	27 5	31 8
Average	1,590	1,552	717	835	38	18	20

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,552 where 1,227 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 Wittenberg 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	1,865	1,760	768	992	105	30	75
2016-17	1,960	1,866	836	1,030	94	36	58
2017-18	1,857	1,775	829	946	82	29	53
2018-19	1,757	1,681	760	921	76	31	45
2019-20	1,577	1,504	688	816	73	26	47
2020-21	1,445	1,388	638	750	57	34	23
2021-22	1,286	1,238	567	671	48	21	27
2022-23	1,258	1,217	578	639	41	20	21
2023-24	1,288	1,261	628	633	27	10	17
2024-25	1,227	1,215	636	579	12	2	10
Average	1,552	1,552	693	798	1,552	24	38

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 38 where 58 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 Wittenberg 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	11	0	0	0	11	3	8
2016-17	28	0	0	0	28	11	17
2017-18	27	7	4	3	20	9	11
2018-19	44	12	7	5	32	13	19
2019-20	42	37	20	17	5	1	4
2020-21	43	21	14	7	22	10	12
2021-22	40	14	11	3	26	10	16
2022-23	41	10	5	5	31	11	20
2023-24	45	9	4	5	36	18	18
2024-25	58	11	5	6	47	22	25
Average	38	38	7	5	38	11	15

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 69.73%. The percentage was 80.06% 10 years ago and Wittenberg still has a high percentage of white students. 1.32% of enrolled students is Asian and 12.68% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 5.60% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 80.06% to 69.73%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.96% to 1.32%. Black student enrollment increased from 7.14% to 12.68%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 2.77% to 5.60%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4928 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.3499 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Wittenberg 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	6	18	134	52	0	1,502	104
2016-17	5	24	179	68	1	1,524	121
2017-18	4	24	181	74	1	1,443	110
2018-19	5	18	173	69	0	1,389	90
2019-20	2	21	151	63	0	1,245	88
2020-21	2	16	137	67	0	1,151	79
2021-22	2	12	113	60	0	1,016	71
2022-23	3	16	124	72	0	957	78
2023-24	2	16	142	69	0	962	80
2024-25	2	17	163	72	0	896	52
Average	3	18	150	67	0	1,209	87