Student Population at Marshall University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
10,691	7,952	2,739

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 10,691 students have enrolled in Marshall University with 7,952 undergraduate and 2,739 graduate students.

By gender, 4,285 male and 6,406 female students are attending the school.

It has much fewer students compared to similar colleges (16,325 students in average - public Research University (high research activity)).

1,990 students are enrolled exclusively, and 3,787 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

Marshall University has a total of 10,691 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 7,952 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,739 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 4,285 male and 6,406 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	10,691	7,952	2,739
Men	4,285	3,354	931
Women	6,406	4,598	1,808

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,803 White, 560 Black, and 163 Asian students out of a total of 10,691 are attending at Marshall 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	41	21	20
Asian	163	70	93
Black	560	273	287
Hispanic	248	117	131
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	9	4	5
White	8,803	3,428	5,375
Two or more races	330	112	218
Race Unknown	388	179	209

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	33	18	15
Asian	109	43	66
Black	436	226	210
Hispanic	185	89	96
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	5	2	3
White	6,620	2,736	3,884
Two or more races	274	93	181
Race Unknown	200	97	103

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	8	3	5
Asian	54	27	27
Black	124	47	77
Hispanic	63	28	35
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	4	2	2
White	2,183	692	1,491
Two or more races	56	19	37
Race Unknown	188	82	106

Student Age Distribution

By age, Marshall has 806 students under 18 years old and 25 students over 65 years old. There are 7,934 students under 25 years old, and 2,756 students over 25 years old out of 10,691 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 806 students are younger than 18 and 14 students are older than 65. Marshall has 7,041 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 910 students aged 25 and over.

It has 893 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,846 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	806	495	311
18-19	2,604	1,550	1,054
20-21	2,463	1,460	1,003
22-24	2,061	1,169	892
25-29	1,166	677	489
30-34	515	334	181
35-39	372	227	145
40-49	467	335	132
50-64	211	143	68
Over 65	25	15	10

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	806	495	311
18-19	2,604	1,550	1,054
20-21	2,408	1,417	991
22-24	1,223	611	612
25-29	387	207	180
30-34	189	116	73
35-39	128	74	54
40-49	137	83	54
50-64	55	36	19
Over 65	14	8	6

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 Marshall University, 1,990 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,787 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,473 students lived in West Virginia or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 517 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	10,691	1,990	3,787
Undergraduate	7,952	838	3,471
Graduate	2,739	1,152	316

Online Student Population by Locality
	West Virginia Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	1,473	517
Undergraduate	676	162
Graduate	797	355

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 7,952 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 446 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.61%.363 students have transferred in as full-time status and 83 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	5,985
Transfer-in Full-time	363
Regular Part-time	1,521
Transfer-in Part-time	83

Student Population at Marshall University

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