Student Population at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
50,028	41,745	8,283

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 50,028 students have enrolled in Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus with 41,745 undergraduate and 8,283 graduate students.

By gender, 26,390 male and 23,638 female students are attending the school.

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

116 students are enrolled exclusively, and 18,032 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

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus has a total of 50,028 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 41,745 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,283 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 26,390 male and 23,638 female students (the male-female ratio is 53:47) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	50,028	41,745	8,283
Men	26,390	22,183	4,207
Women	23,638	19,562	4,076

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 29,395 White, 2,168 Black, and 3,307 Asian students out of a total of 50,028 are attending at Pennsylvania State University-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	49	25	24
Asian	3,307	1,850	1,457
Black	2,168	946	1,222
Hispanic	3,955	1,757	2,198
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	37	22	15
White	29,395	15,185	14,210
Two or more races	1,691	841	850
Race Unknown	1,523	813	710

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	45	22	23
Asian	2,924	1,688	1,236
Black	1,856	831	1,025
Hispanic	3,481	1,554	1,927
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	32	18	14
White	26,196	13,659	12,537
Two or more races	1,503	748	755
Race Unknown	1,109	638	471

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	4	3	1
Asian	383	162	221
Black	312	115	197
Hispanic	474	203	271
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	5	4	1
White	3,199	1,526	1,673
Two or more races	188	93	95
Race Unknown	414	175	239

Student Age Distribution

By age, Penn State has 7,798 students under 18 years old and 7 students over 65 years old. There are 44,901 students under 25 years old, and 5,125 students over 25 years old out of 50,028 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 7,797 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. Penn State has 41,166 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 577 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Penn State, 1 students are younger than 18 and 5 students are older than 65. It has 3,735 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,548 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	7,798	4,078	3,720
18-19	19,600	9,574	10,026
20-21	13,380	5,863	7,517
22-24	4,123	1,779	2,344
25-29	3,255	1,488	1,767
30-34	985	464	521
35-39	387	177	210
40-49	361	153	208
50-64	130	59	71
Over 65	7	2	5

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	7,797	4,077	3,720
18-19	19,591	9,570	10,021
20-21	12,558	5,425	7,133
22-24	1,220	332	888
25-29	239	68	171
30-34	88	24	64
35-39	59	20	39
40-49	130	29	101
50-64	59	15	44
Over 65	2	1	1

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	1	1	0
18-19	9	4	5
20-21	822	438	384
22-24	2,903	1,447	1,456
25-29	3,016	1,420	1,596
30-34	897	440	457
35-39	328	157	171
40-49	231	124	107
50-64	71	44	27
Over 65	5	1	4

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 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, 116 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 18,032 students are enrolled in some online courses.

90 students lived in Pennsylvania or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 26 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	50,028	116	18,032
Undergraduate	41,745	66	17,335
Graduate	8,283	50	697

Online Student Population by Locality
	Pennsylvania Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	90	19	7
Undergraduate	47	15	4
Graduate	43	4	3

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 41,745 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 432 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 1.03%.421 students have transferred in as full-time status and 11 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	40,107
Transfer-in Full-time	421
Regular Part-time	1,206
Transfer-in Part-time	11

Student Population at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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