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Student Enrollment Trends

Student Enrollment Trends features undergraduate and graduate student information spanning the last decade at William & Mary. Two prominent trends highlighted are degrees conferred and enrollment numbers. These data provide unique insights into the academic lives of William & Mary’s students. The data are also key metrics the Provost’s Office and faculty leadership rely on in forecasting future academic needs at William & Mary. 

Explore this data or learn more about the data quality and methodology used.

Questions? Contact [[provostdata]].

Explore the Data

  • View Undergraduate Student Data

    Total undergraduate enrollment by year, enrollment by major and minor in spring 2022, and degrees conferred by area and major.

  • View Graduate Student Data

    Total graduate enrollment by year, distribution of degrees by school, enrollment by school and program in spring 2022, and degrees conferred by school and program.

Data and Methodology

Data Quality

Data values may vary depending on the source.

  • Census Data — Institutional Research generates high-quality census data in the fall, spring and summer that are point-in-time. Census data are used for the university’s compliance and other external reporting, the university’s Fact Book, and trends analysis over time.
  • Operational Data — W&M uses Banner Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to manage core day-to-day business activities. The data are generally refreshed nightly.
Methodology

The types of data or information you will find here.

  • Degrees conferred are degrees graduated in a given academic year. These data can give you an idea of the number of degrees William & Mary graduates in a discipline or by degree.
  • Enrollment numbers provide a “snapshot” of enrollment by discipline/degree. These data will give you an idea of how many students were enrolled in a school, degree, discipline and/or program. Enrollment numbers are based on headcounts, not full-time-equivalency (a single value providing a meaningful combination of full-time and part-time students).
  • Operational data, rather than census data, are used for major and minor counts because census data are “frozen” within the first two weeks of a semester, inadvertently omitting a significant window of when students declare their majors and minors.
  • At the time of data collection, Spring 2022 was the most recent completed semester. Additional recent data will be added as they become available.