Student Population at George Washington University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
25,939	11,482	14,457

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 25,939 students have enrolled in George Washington University with 11,482 undergraduate and 14,457 graduate students.

By gender, 9,774 male and 16,165 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (19,694 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (very high research activity)).

4,979 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,570 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

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Student Population by Gender

George Washington University has a total of 25,939 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 11,482 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 14,457 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,774 male and 16,165 female students (the male-female ratio is 38:62) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	25,939	11,482	14,457
Men	9,774	4,176	5,598
Women	16,165	7,306	8,859

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 11,888 White, 2,608 Black, and 3,195 Asian students out of a total of 25,939 are attending at George Washington University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

All Students

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Total)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	39	19	20
Asian	3,195	1,162	2,033
Black	2,608	779	1,829
Hispanic	2,640	916	1,724
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	32	10	22
White	11,888	4,398	7,490
Two or more races	1,017	327	690
Race Unknown	1,178	471	707

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	8	4	4
Asian	1,531	547	984
Black	937	262	675
Hispanic	1,488	521	967
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	12	3	9
White	5,574	2,055	3,519
Two or more races	579	193	386
Race Unknown	321	102	219

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	31	15	16
Asian	1,664	615	1,049
Black	1,671	517	1,154
Hispanic	1,152	395	757
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	20	7	13
White	6,314	2,343	3,971
Two or more races	438	134	304
Race Unknown	857	369	488

Student Age Distribution

By age, GWU has 212 students under 18 years old and 42 students over 65 years old. There are 14,026 students under 25 years old, and 11,806 students over 25 years old out of 25,939 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 212 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. GWU has 10,383 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 993 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,643 graduate students aged under 25 and 10,813 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	212	173	39
18-19	3,870	2,486	1,384
20-21	4,308	2,801	1,507
22-24	5,636	3,556	2,080
25-29	5,689	3,555	2,134
30-34	2,485	1,392	1,093
35-39	1,379	787	592
40-49	1,552	903	649
50-64	659	408	251
Over 65	42	20	22

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	212	173	39
18-19	3,869	2,486	1,383
20-21	4,225	2,742	1,483
22-24	2,077	1,224	853
25-29	393	262	131
30-34	231	109	122
35-39	160	82	78
40-49	140	98	42
50-64	66	45	21
Over 65	3	2	1

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At George Washington University, 4,979 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,570 students are enrolled in some online courses.

275 students lived in District of Columbia or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 4,704 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	25,939	4,979	1,570
Undergraduate	11,482	579	185
Graduate	14,457	4,400	1,385

Online Student Population by Locality
	District of Columbia Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	275	4,682	22
Undergraduate	18	558	3
Graduate	257	4,124	19

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 11,482 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 357 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.11%.252 students have transferred in as full-time status and 105 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	10,080
Transfer-in Full-time	252
Regular Part-time	1,045
Transfer-in Part-time	105

Student Population at George Washington University

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