Student Population at University of Kansas

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
26,708	19,241	7,467

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 26,708 students have enrolled in University of Kansas with 19,241 undergraduate and 7,467 graduate students.

By gender, 12,098 male and 14,610 female students are attending the school.

It has fewer students compared to similar colleges (33,713 students in average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

2,593 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,671 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

University of Kansas has a total of 26,708 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 19,241 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,467 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 12,098 male and 14,610 female students (the male-female ratio is 45:55) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	26,708	19,241	7,467
Men	12,098	8,943	3,155
Women	14,610	10,298	4,312

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 17,807 White, 1,178 Black, and 1,599 Asian students out of a total of 26,708 are attending at University of Kansas. 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	141	49	92
Asian	1,599	730	869
Black	1,178	566	612
Hispanic	2,377	973	1,404
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	19	8	11
White	17,807	7,989	9,818
Two or more races	1,384	610	774
Race Unknown	366	203	163

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	97	36	61
Asian	1,157	544	613
Black	811	407	404
Hispanic	1,882	785	1,097
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	16	7	9
White	13,278	6,162	7,116
Two or more races	1,085	489	596
Race Unknown	124	68	56

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	44	13	31
Asian	442	186	256
Black	367	159	208
Hispanic	495	188	307
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	3	1	2
White	4,529	1,827	2,702
Two or more races	299	121	178
Race Unknown	242	135	107

Student Age Distribution

By age, KU has 370 students under 18 years old and 54 students over 65 years old. There are 20,167 students under 25 years old, and 6,540 students over 25 years old out of 26,708 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 370 students are younger than 18 and 40 students are older than 65. KU has 17,903 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,338 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,264 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,202 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	370	212	158
18-19	7,464	4,209	3,255
20-21	7,550	4,050	3,500
22-24	4,783	2,539	2,244
25-29	3,095	1,661	1,434
30-34	1,500	789	711
35-39	798	437	361
40-49	791	493	298
50-64	302	194	108
Over 65	54	26	28

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	370	212	158
18-19	7,464	4,209	3,255
20-21	7,432	3,972	3,460
22-24	2,637	1,216	1,421
25-29	646	312	334
30-34	279	141	138
35-39	148	86	62
40-49	159	92	67
50-64	66	42	24
Over 65	40	16	24

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 University of Kansas, 2,593 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,671 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,518 students lived in Kansas or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,075 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	26,708	2,593	9,671
Undergraduate	19,241	925	8,455
Graduate	7,467	1,668	1,216

Online Student Population by Locality
	Kansas Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	1,518	1,051	24
Undergraduate	731	192	2
Graduate	787	859	22

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 19,241 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,150 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.98%.921 students have transferred in as full-time status and 229 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	15,880
Transfer-in Full-time	921
Regular Part-time	2,211
Transfer-in Part-time	229

Student Population at University of Kansas

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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