Student Population at Ball State University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
19,777	14,416	5,361

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 19,777 students have enrolled in Ball State University with 14,416 undergraduate and 5,361 graduate students.

By gender, 6,882 male and 12,895 female students are attending the school.

It has more students compared to similar colleges (16,325 students in average - public Research University (high research activity)).

5,040 students are enrolled exclusively, and 6,716 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

Ball State University has a total of 19,777 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 14,416 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 5,361 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 6,882 male and 12,895 female students (the male-female ratio is 35:65) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	19,777	14,416	5,361
Men	6,882	5,622	1,260
Women	12,895	8,794	4,101

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 14,557 White, 1,785 Black, and 439 Asian students out of a total of 19,777 are attending at Ball State 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	24	7	17
Asian	439	162	277
Black	1,785	588	1,197
Hispanic	1,510	518	992
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	14	8	6
White	14,557	5,057	9,500
Two or more races	770	279	491
Race Unknown	341	118	223

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	21	6	15
Asian	319	123	196
Black	1,336	501	835
Hispanic	1,050	425	625
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	11	6	5
White	10,723	4,187	6,536
Two or more races	618	241	377
Race Unknown	254	100	154

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	3	1	2
Asian	120	39	81
Black	449	87	362
Hispanic	460	93	367
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	3	2	1
White	3,834	870	2,964
Two or more races	152	38	114
Race Unknown	87	18	69

Student Age Distribution

By age, BSU has 976 students under 18 years old and 16 students over 65 years old. There are 15,252 students under 25 years old, and 4,525 students over 25 years old out of 19,777 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 976 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. BSU has 13,673 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 743 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,579 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,782 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	976	588	388
18-19	5,722	3,589	2,133
20-21	5,437	3,337	2,100
22-24	3,117	2,059	1,058
25-29	2,009	1,486	523
30-34	933	663	270
35-39	612	422	190
40-49	684	534	150
50-64	271	206	65
Over 65	16	11	5

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	976	588	388
18-19	5,722	3,589	2,133
20-21	5,337	3,256	2,081
22-24	1,638	881	757
25-29	332	193	139
30-34	172	112	60
35-39	103	75	28
40-49	87	62	25
50-64	47	38	9
Over 65	2	0	2

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 Ball State University, 5,040 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,716 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,591 students lived in Indiana or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,449 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	19,777	5,040	6,716
Undergraduate	14,416	953	6,226
Graduate	5,361	4,087	490

Online Student Population by Locality
	Indiana Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	2,591	2,424	25
Undergraduate	807	144	2
Graduate	1,784	2,280	23

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 14,416 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 522 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.62%.459 students have transferred in as full-time status and 63 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	12,163
Transfer-in Full-time	459
Regular Part-time	1,731
Transfer-in Part-time	63

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