Student Population at Purdue University-Main Campus

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
51,528	38,593	12,935

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 51,528 students have enrolled in Purdue University-Main Campus with 38,593 undergraduate and 12,935 graduate students.

By gender, 29,790 male and 21,738 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)).

4,437 students are enrolled exclusively, and 13,394 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

Purdue University-Main Campus has a total of 51,528 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 38,593 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 12,935 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 29,790 male and 21,738 female students (the male-female ratio is 58:42) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	51,528	38,593	12,935
Men	29,790	22,210	7,580
Women	21,738	16,383	5,355

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 28,700 White, 1,364 Black, and 5,754 Asian students out of a total of 51,528 are attending at Purdue 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	63	37	26
Asian	5,754	3,541	2,213
Black	1,364	678	686
Hispanic	3,252	1,798	1,454
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	23	19	4
White	28,700	15,735	12,965
Two or more races	2,040	1,099	941
Race Unknown	892	526	366

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	30	21	9
Asian	4,862	3,028	1,834
Black	960	500	460
Hispanic	2,554	1,413	1,141
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	20	16	4
White	23,591	12,928	10,663
Two or more races	1,771	963	808
Race Unknown	556	377	179

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	33	16	17
Asian	892	513	379
Black	404	178	226
Hispanic	698	385	313
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	3	3	0
White	5,109	2,807	2,302
Two or more races	269	136	133
Race Unknown	336	149	187

Student Age Distribution

By age, PU has 342 students under 18 years old and 26 students over 65 years old. There are 41,678 students under 25 years old, and 9,850 students over 25 years old out of 51,528 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 342 students are younger than 18 and 10 students are older than 65. PU has 37,522 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,071 students aged 25 and over.

It has 4,156 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,779 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	342	141	201
18-19	16,936	7,487	9,449
20-21	16,235	6,928	9,307
22-24	8,165	3,175	4,990
25-29	5,729	2,199	3,530
30-34	2,022	842	1,180
35-39	891	374	517
40-49	838	422	416
50-64	344	162	182
Over 65	26	8	18

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	342	141	201
18-19	16,933	7,485	9,448
20-21	15,832	6,712	9,120
22-24	4,415	1,533	2,882
25-29	555	240	315
30-34	212	113	99
35-39	121	61	60
40-49	121	61	60
50-64	52	33	19
Over 65	10	4	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 Purdue University-Main Campus, 4,437 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,394 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,090 students lived in Indiana or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,347 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	51,528	4,437	13,394
Undergraduate	38,593	672	12,221
Graduate	12,935	3,765	1,173

Online Student Population by Locality
	Indiana Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	1,090	2,958	389
Undergraduate	304	343	25
Graduate	786	2,615	364

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 38,593 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,042 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 2.70%.869 students have transferred in as full-time status and 173 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	35,615
Transfer-in Full-time	869
Regular Part-time	1,936
Transfer-in Part-time	173

Student Population at Purdue University-Main Campus

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