Student Population at George Mason University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
39,049	27,014	12,035

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 39,049 students have enrolled in George Mason University with 27,014 undergraduate and 12,035 graduate students.

By gender, 18,826 male and 20,223 female students are attending the school.

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

7,421 students are enrolled exclusively, and 20,436 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

George Mason University has a total of 39,049 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 27,014 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 12,035 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 18,826 male and 20,223 female students (the male-female ratio is 48:52) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	39,049	27,014	12,035
Men	18,826	13,798	5,028
Women	20,223	13,216	7,007

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 14,374 White, 4,445 Black, and 7,438 Asian students out of a total of 39,049 are attending at George Mason 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	49	25	24
Asian	7,438	3,783	3,655
Black	4,445	1,939	2,506
Hispanic	5,607	2,432	3,175
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	41	17	24
White	14,374	6,908	7,466
Two or more races	1,567	756	811
Race Unknown	1,611	809	802

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	26	16	10
Asian	6,193	3,314	2,879
Black	3,215	1,520	1,695
Hispanic	4,572	2,070	2,502
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	29	14	15
White	9,217	4,871	4,346
Two or more races	1,427	698	729
Race Unknown	867	481	386

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	23	9	14
Asian	1,245	469	776
Black	1,230	419	811
Hispanic	1,035	362	673
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	12	3	9
White	5,157	2,037	3,120
Two or more races	140	58	82
Race Unknown	744	328	416

Student Age Distribution

By age, GMU has 319 students under 18 years old and 90 students over 65 years old. There are 25,415 students under 25 years old, and 13,627 students over 25 years old out of 39,049 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 319 students are younger than 18 and 31 students are older than 65. GMU has 22,248 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 4,765 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,167 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,862 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	319	149	170
18-19	7,234	3,572	3,662
20-21	8,547	4,403	4,144
22-24	9,315	4,511	4,804
25-29	6,367	3,317	3,050
30-34	2,825	1,558	1,267
35-39	1,567	908	659
40-49	1,807	1,155	652
50-64	971	603	368
Over 65	90	46	44

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	319	149	170
18-19	7,233	3,571	3,662
20-21	8,345	4,294	4,051
22-24	6,351	2,857	3,494
25-29	2,813	1,301	1,512
30-34	924	459	465
35-39	387	190	197
40-49	422	254	168
50-64	188	122	66
Over 65	31	19	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 George Mason University, 7,421 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 20,436 students are enrolled in some online courses.

395 students lived in Virginia or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,026 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	39,049	7,421	20,436
Undergraduate	27,014	3,832	17,144
Graduate	12,035	3,589	3,292

Online Student Population by Locality
	Virginia Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	395	7,018	8
Undergraduate	36	3,793	3
Graduate	359	3,225	5

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 27,014 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,636 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.76%.2,057 students have transferred in as full-time status and 579 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	19,455
Transfer-in Full-time	2,057
Regular Part-time	4,923
Transfer-in Part-time	579

Student Population at George Mason University

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

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