Over the past year, enrollment at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is up by more than 7 percent. Since the women's college launched a new strategic plan in 2023, enrollment has increased by nearly 20 percent.
Texas Woman's University's enrollment growth is partly due to a larger increase in graduate student enrollment. Graduate students currently represent over a third of the university's entire student body.
Mount Holyoke College has pledged to waive tuition for all U.S. students with total family income up to $150,000. This income level represent roughly 75 percent of all families across the country.
For the fall 2025 semester, total undergraduate enrollment at the North Carolina-based women's college has risen by 19 percent and new student enrollment has grown by 27 percent.
Compared to the spring 2024 semester, women's overall undergraduate enrollment grew by 3.3 percent, but remains 3 percent below that of spring 2020. At the graduate level, women's overall enrollment has continually increased over the past five years, showing a 1.7 percent increase from spring 2024 and a 7.4 percent increase from spring 2020.
For the 2025-2026 academic year, 3,219 students applied to enroll in Salem College's Class of 2029 - a 43 percent increase from 2024 and a 454 percent increase since May 2021.
In the fall 2023 semester, women represented over half of first-time graduate students at the master's degree and certificate level (58.2 percent) and the doctoral level (56.5 percent).Women also earned the majority of all graduate certificates, master's degrees, and doctorates awarded by U.S. institutions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
The number of entering first-year students was 39,689, up nearly 5 percent from 2023. Of these, 22,260 were women. Thus, women made up 56 percent of all entering students at U.S. law schools.
The share of women who have applied to graduate business programs has experienced a small increase. Over the past 10 years, women have consistently represented about 40 percent of all graduate business program applicants. In 2024, this increased to 42 percent. Roughly 55 percent of business graduate programs reported growth in women applicants.
For the Fall 2024 semester, the college's total undergraduate enrollment grew by 10 percent from the previous year. The women's college also experienced its third consecutive year of record-breaking growth in applications.
Women’s enrollment stabilized this year with a small increase of 0.3 percent after large pandemic-era declines. Men’s enrollment continued to grow with 64,000 additional male student enrollments from a year ago. This was an increase of 1.1 percent.
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that college enrollment among young Americans has been declining gradually over the past decade. Much of this decline is because of lower enrollments of men at four-year colleges and universities. Today, men represent only 42 percent of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47 percent in 2011.
