Student Population at Wichita State University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
16,216	12,049	4,167

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 16,216 students have enrolled in Wichita State University with 12,049 undergraduate and 4,167 graduate students.

By gender, 7,220 male and 8,996 female students are attending the school.

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

3,537 students are enrolled exclusively, and 5,756 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

Wichita State University has a total of 16,216 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 12,049 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,167 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 7,220 male and 8,996 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	16,216	12,049	4,167
Men	7,220	5,257	1,963
Women	8,996	6,792	2,204

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,139 White, 843 Black, and 956 Asian students out of a total of 16,216 are attending at Wichita 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	92	30	62
Asian	956	450	506
Black	843	327	516
Hispanic	2,027	826	1,201
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	17	7	10
White	8,139	3,290	4,849
Two or more races	682	260	422
Race Unknown	341	141	200

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	77	25	52
Asian	850	401	449
Black	698	280	418
Hispanic	1,823	774	1,049
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	15	7	8
White	6,313	2,709	3,604
Two or more races	592	226	366
Race Unknown	287	123	164

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	15	5	10
Asian	106	49	57
Black	145	47	98
Hispanic	204	52	152
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	2	0	2
White	1,826	581	1,245
Two or more races	90	34	56
Race Unknown	54	18	36

Student Age Distribution

By age, WSU has 740 students under 18 years old and 40 students over 65 years old. There are 11,089 students under 25 years old, and 5,127 students over 25 years old out of 16,216 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 740 students are younger than 18 and 19 students are older than 65. WSU has 9,373 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,676 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,716 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,451 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	740	494	246
18-19	3,202	1,748	1,454
20-21	3,454	1,948	1,506
22-24	3,693	1,737	1,956
25-29	2,163	1,102	1,061
30-34	1,100	693	407
35-39	700	454	246
40-49	792	557	235
50-64	332	240	92
Over 65	40	23	17

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	740	494	246
18-19	3,202	1,748	1,454
20-21	3,288	1,864	1,424
22-24	2,143	1,058	1,085
25-29	1,123	605	518
30-34	624	407	217
35-39	411	273	138
40-49	381	253	128
50-64	118	83	35
Over 65	19	7	12

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 Wichita State University, 3,537 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 5,756 students are enrolled in some online courses.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	16,216	3,537	5,756
Undergraduate	12,049	2,588	4,998
Graduate	4,167	949	758

Online Student Population by Locality
	Kansas Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	0	3,537	0
Undergraduate	0	2,588	0
Graduate	0	949	0

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 12,049 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,224 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 10.16%.919 students have transferred in as full-time status and 305 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	7,419
Transfer-in Full-time	919
Regular Part-time	3,406
Transfer-in Part-time	305

Student Population at Wichita State University

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