Dakota Wesleyan University Student Population and Demographics

Dakota Wesleyan Student Population

There are 892 students including 771 undergraduate and 121 graduate students at Dakota Wesleyan University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 719 full-time and 173 part-time students with gender distribution of 426 male and 466 female students.

Dakota Wesleyan University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 120 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Dakota Wesleyan University has a total enrollment of 892 with a gender distribution of 47.76% male (426 students) and 52.24% female (466 students). There are 362 male and 409 female students in undergraduate school and 64 male and 57 female students are attending graduate school at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Student Population By Gender
Dakota Wesleyan University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	892	426	466
Undergraduate	771	362	409
Graduate	121	64	57
Full-time	719	365	354
Part-time	173	61	112

[Chart] Dakota Wesleyan University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Dakota Wesleyan University has 719 full-time and 173 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 650 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 121 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 69 students are full-time and 52 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Dakota Wesleyan University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	892	719	173
Undergraduate	771	650	121
Graduate	121	69	52
Men	426	365	61
Women	466	354	112

[Chart] Dakota Wesleyan University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Dakota Wesleyan University, 120 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 231 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 892 students.

In undergraduate schools, 230 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 121 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Dakota Wesleyan University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	892	771	121
Online Exclusively	120	14	106
In Some Online Classes	231	216	15
Not In Online Classes	541	541	0

[Chart] Dakota Wesleyan University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Dakota Wesleyan University. There are 10 American Indian/Native American, 730 White, 18 Black/African American, 6 Asian, 57 Hispanic, and 27 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Dakota Wesleyan University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	892	426	466
American Indian/Native American	10	2	8
Asian	6	5	1
Black/African American	18	16	2
Hispanic	57	27	30
White	730	327	403
Two More	43	24	19
Race Un-Known	4	3	1

[Chart] Dakota Wesleyan UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

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