Student Population at University of New Mexico-Main Campus

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
21,953	16,375	5,578

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 21,953 students have enrolled in University of New Mexico-Main Campus with 16,375 undergraduate and 5,578 graduate students.

By gender, 9,289 male and 12,664 female students are attending the school.

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

3,883 students are enrolled exclusively, and 8,332 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 New Mexico-Main Campus has a total of 21,953 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 16,375 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 5,578 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,289 male and 12,664 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	21,953	16,375	5,578
Men	9,289	6,848	2,441
Women	12,664	9,527	3,137

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,841 White, 613 Black, and 944 Asian students out of a total of 21,953 are attending at University of New Mexico-Main Campus. 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	1,281	389	892
Asian	944	403	541
Black	613	330	283
Hispanic	9,978	4,028	5,950
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	35	15	20
White	6,841	3,002	3,839
Two or more races	828	343	485
Race Unknown	370	181	189

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	1,024	315	709
Asian	678	300	378
Black	489	263	226
Hispanic	8,149	3,280	4,869
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	28	14	14
White	4,748	2,093	2,655
Two or more races	654	276	378
Race Unknown	216	107	109

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	257	74	183
Asian	266	103	163
Black	124	67	57
Hispanic	1,829	748	1,081
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	7	1	6
White	2,093	909	1,184
Two or more races	174	67	107
Race Unknown	154	74	80

Student Age Distribution

By age, UNM has 310 students under 18 years old and 73 students over 65 years old. There are 13,855 students under 25 years old, and 7,633 students over 25 years old out of 21,953 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 310 students are younger than 18 and 41 students are older than 65. UNM has 12,537 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,373 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,318 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,260 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	310	194	116
18-19	5,584	3,252	2,332
20-21	4,331	2,513	1,818
22-24	3,630	1,992	1,638
25-29	2,962	1,629	1,333
30-34	1,768	994	774
35-39	1,126	664	462
40-49	1,174	762	412
50-64	530	360	170
Over 65	73	39	34

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	310	194	116
18-19	5,582	3,251	2,331
20-21	4,253	2,465	1,788
22-24	2,392	1,283	1,109
25-29	1,288	734	554
30-34	769	464	305
35-39	498	318	180
40-49	537	367	170
50-64	240	166	74
Over 65	41	20	21

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 New Mexico-Main Campus, 3,883 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 8,332 students are enrolled in some online courses.

3,556 students lived in New Mexico or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 327 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	21,953	3,883	8,332
Undergraduate	16,375	2,396	7,235
Graduate	5,578	1,487	1,097

Online Student Population by Locality
	New Mexico Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	3,556	321	6
Undergraduate	2,192	204	0
Graduate	1,364	117	6

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 16,375 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,195 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.30%.766 students have transferred in as full-time status and 429 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	11,276
Transfer-in Full-time	766
Regular Part-time	3,904
Transfer-in Part-time	429

Student Population at University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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