Student Population at University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
32,229	24,391	7,838

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 32,229 students have enrolled in University of Massachusetts-Amherst with 24,391 undergraduate and 7,838 graduate students.

By gender, 15,689 male and 16,540 female students are attending the school.

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

3,853 students are enrolled exclusively, and 3,063 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 Massachusetts-Amherst has a total of 32,229 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 24,391 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,838 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 15,689 male and 16,540 female students (the male-female ratio is 49:51) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	32,229	24,391	7,838
Men	15,689	11,843	3,846
Women	16,540	12,548	3,992

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 17,869 White, 1,466 Black, and 3,701 Asian students out of a total of 32,229 are attending at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 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	25	9	16
Asian	3,701	1,794	1,907
Black	1,466	614	852
Hispanic	2,558	1,092	1,466
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	18	10	8
White	17,869	8,640	9,229
Two or more races	1,149	536	613
Race Unknown	1,273	617	656

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	17	8	9
Asian	3,097	1,486	1,611
Black	1,123	474	649
Hispanic	2,053	884	1,169
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	15	9	6
White	14,400	7,006	7,394
Two or more races	990	475	515
Race Unknown	885	421	464

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	8	1	7
Asian	604	308	296
Black	343	140	203
Hispanic	505	208	297
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	3	1	2
White	3,469	1,634	1,835
Two or more races	159	61	98
Race Unknown	388	196	192

Student Age Distribution

By age, UMass Amherst has 270 students under 18 years old and 44 students over 65 years old. There are 24,812 students under 25 years old, and 7,417 students over 25 years old out of 32,229 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 270 students are younger than 18 and 17 students are older than 65. UMass Amherst has 23,078 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,313 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,734 graduate students aged under 25 and 6,104 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	270	154	116
18-19	9,792	5,317	4,475
20-21	10,819	5,500	5,319
22-24	3,931	1,632	2,299
25-29	2,867	1,448	1,419
30-34	1,695	862	833
35-39	1,049	565	484
40-49	1,193	680	513
50-64	569	357	212
Over 65	44	25	19

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	270	154	116
18-19	9,790	5,316	4,474
20-21	10,714	5,446	5,268
22-24	2,304	873	1,431
25-29	500	259	241
30-34	271	155	116
35-39	171	103	68
40-49	218	144	74
50-64	136	88	48
Over 65	17	10	7

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 Massachusetts-Amherst, 3,853 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,063 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,058 students lived in Massachusetts or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,795 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	32,229	3,853	3,063
Undergraduate	24,391	1,055	2,412
Graduate	7,838	2,798	651

Online Student Population by Locality
	Massachusetts Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	2,058	1,719	76
Undergraduate	669	369	17
Graduate	1,389	1,350	59

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 24,391 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,238 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.08%.1,059 students have transferred in as full-time status and 179 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	21,861
Transfer-in Full-time	1,059
Regular Part-time	1,292
Transfer-in Part-time	179

Student Population at University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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