Student Population at Wayne State University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
23,630	15,958	7,672

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 23,630 students have enrolled in Wayne State University with 15,958 undergraduate and 7,672 graduate students.

By gender, 9,453 male and 14,177 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)).

3,328 students are enrolled exclusively, and 10,452 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

Wayne State University has a total of 23,630 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 15,958 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,672 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,453 male and 14,177 female students (the male-female ratio is 40:60) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	23,630	15,958	7,672
Men	9,453	6,491	2,962
Women	14,177	9,467	4,710

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 13,182 White, 3,531 Black, and 2,725 Asian students out of a total of 23,630 are attending at Wayne 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	53	22	31
Asian	2,725	1,195	1,530
Black	3,531	1,114	2,417
Hispanic	1,456	530	926
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	11	6	5
White	13,182	5,327	7,855
Two or more races	909	353	556
Race Unknown	517	239	278

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	39	19	20
Asian	2,123	939	1,184
Black	2,528	842	1,686
Hispanic	1,110	403	707
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	6	3	3
White	8,826	3,716	5,110
Two or more races	668	261	407
Race Unknown	340	153	187

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	14	3	11
Asian	602	256	346
Black	1,003	272	731
Hispanic	346	127	219
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	5	3	2
White	4,356	1,611	2,745
Two or more races	241	92	149
Race Unknown	177	86	91

Student Age Distribution

By age, WSU has 531 students under 18 years old and 89 students over 65 years old. There are 15,910 students under 25 years old, and 7,716 students over 25 years old out of 23,630 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 531 students are younger than 18 and 38 students are older than 65. WSU has 13,555 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,399 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,355 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,317 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	531	336	195
18-19	4,713	2,847	1,866
20-21	5,296	3,254	2,042
22-24	5,370	3,166	2,204
25-29	3,984	2,278	1,706
30-34	1,570	882	688
35-39	802	503	299
40-49	843	551	292
50-64	428	308	120
Over 65	89	49	40

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	531	336	195
18-19	4,712	2,846	1,866
20-21	5,156	3,153	2,003
22-24	3,156	1,731	1,425
25-29	1,306	710	596
30-34	449	266	183
35-39	243	163	80
40-49	216	136	80
50-64	147	102	45
Over 65	38	21	17

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 Wayne State University, 3,328 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 10,452 students are enrolled in some online courses.

3,134 students lived in Michigan or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 194 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	23,630	3,328	10,452
Undergraduate	15,958	1,577	9,349
Graduate	7,672	1,751	1,103

Online Student Population by Locality
	Michigan Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	3,134	109	85
Undergraduate	1,536	24	17
Graduate	1,598	85	68

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 15,958 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,451 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.09%.974 students have transferred in as full-time status and 477 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	11,132
Transfer-in Full-time	974
Regular Part-time	3,375
Transfer-in Part-time	477

Student Population at Wayne State University

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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