Student Population at Virginia Commonwealth University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
28,082	20,958	7,124

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 28,082 students have enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University with 20,958 undergraduate and 7,124 graduate students.

By gender, 10,044 male and 18,038 female students are attending the school.

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

2,680 students are enrolled exclusively, and 16,122 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

Virginia Commonwealth University has a total of 28,082 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 20,958 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,124 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,044 male and 18,038 female students (the male-female ratio is 36:64) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	28,082	20,958	7,124
Men	10,044	7,679	2,365
Women	18,038	13,279	4,759

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 12,098 White, 5,248 Black, and 3,733 Asian students out of a total of 28,082 are attending at Virginia Commonwealth 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	48	25	23
Asian	3,733	1,459	2,274
Black	5,248	1,663	3,585
Hispanic	2,786	901	1,885
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	37	10	27
White	12,098	4,459	7,639
Two or more races	1,963	656	1,307
Race Unknown	1,173	401	772

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	43	23	20
Asian	3,008	1,213	1,795
Black	4,307	1,434	2,873
Hispanic	2,342	762	1,580
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	34	10	24
White	8,602	3,270	5,332
Two or more races	1,688	587	1,101
Race Unknown	484	163	321

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	5	2	3
Asian	725	246	479
Black	941	229	712
Hispanic	444	139	305
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	3	0	3
White	3,496	1,189	2,307
Two or more races	275	69	206
Race Unknown	689	238	451

Student Age Distribution

By age, VCU has 251 students under 18 years old and 27 students over 65 years old. There are 21,073 students under 25 years old, and 7,009 students over 25 years old out of 28,082 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 251 students are younger than 18 and 19 students are older than 65. VCU has 18,956 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,002 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,117 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,007 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	251	150	101
18-19	7,466	4,989	2,477
20-21	7,577	4,980	2,597
22-24	5,779	3,556	2,223
25-29	3,610	2,164	1,446
30-34	1,445	872	573
35-39	797	517	280
40-49	807	554	253
50-64	323	241	82
Over 65	27	15	12

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	251	150	101
18-19	7,466	4,989	2,477
20-21	7,496	4,911	2,585
22-24	3,743	2,110	1,633
25-29	1,103	581	522
30-34	407	230	177
35-39	190	113	77
40-49	209	133	76
50-64	74	51	23
Over 65	19	11	8

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 Virginia Commonwealth University, 2,680 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 16,122 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,354 students lived in Virginia or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 326 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	28,082	2,680	16,122
Undergraduate	20,958	1,394	13,942
Graduate	7,124	1,286	2,180

Online Student Population by Locality
	Virginia Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	2,354	326
Undergraduate	1,273	121
Graduate	1,081	205

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 20,958 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,485 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.09%.1,249 students have transferred in as full-time status and 236 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	17,016
Transfer-in Full-time	1,249
Regular Part-time	2,457
Transfer-in Part-time	236

Student Population at Virginia Commonwealth University

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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