Student Population at Western Governors University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
156,935	112,807	44,128

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 156,935 students have enrolled in Western Governors University with 112,807 undergraduate and 44,128 graduate students.

By gender, 57,842 male and 99,093 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (6,139 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Master's College and University (larger programs)).

WGU is a completely online college and 156,935 students are enrolled exclusively.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

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Student Population by Gender

Western Governors University has a total of 156,935 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 112,807 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 44,128 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 57,842 male and 99,093 female students (the male-female ratio is 37:63) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	156,935	112,807	44,128
Men	57,842	45,265	12,577
Women	99,093	67,542	31,551

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 93,418 White, 17,422 Black, and 6,203 Asian students out of a total of 156,935 are attending at Western Governors 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	1,682	583	1,099
Asian	6,203	2,975	3,228
Black	17,422	6,346	11,076
Hispanic	19,551	7,953	11,598
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	760	283	477
White	93,418	32,853	60,565
Two or more races	4,743	1,921	2,822
Race Unknown	13,104	4,905	8,199

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	1,198	447	751
Asian	4,260	2,247	2,013
Black	12,629	4,973	7,656
Hispanic	15,032	6,464	8,568
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	562	229	333
White	65,986	25,505	40,481
Two or more races	3,571	1,556	2,015
Race Unknown	9,535	3,832	5,703

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	484	136	348
Asian	1,943	728	1,215
Black	4,793	1,373	3,420
Hispanic	4,519	1,489	3,030
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	198	54	144
White	27,432	7,348	20,084
Two or more races	1,172	365	807
Race Unknown	3,569	1,073	2,496

Student Age Distribution

By age, WGU has 30 students under 18 years old and 315 students over 65 years old. There are 16,915 students under 25 years old, and 139,995 students over 25 years old out of 156,935 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 29 students are younger than 18 and 160 students are older than 65. WGU has 14,749 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 98,041 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at WGU, 1 students are younger than 18 and 155 students are older than 65. It has 2,166 graduate students aged under 25 and 41,954 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	30	18	12
18-19	894	545	349
20-21	3,725	2,207	1,518
22-24	12,266	7,380	4,886
25-29	31,736	18,629	13,107
30-34	32,321	18,985	13,336
35-39	27,128	17,296	9,832
40-49	34,602	23,856	10,746
50-64	13,893	9,967	3,926
Over 65	315	196	119

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	29	18	11
18-19	891	543	348
20-21	3,649	2,150	1,499
22-24	10,180	5,750	4,430
25-29	23,323	12,589	10,734
30-34	23,799	13,254	10,545
35-39	19,211	11,797	7,414
40-49	22,998	15,294	7,704
50-64	8,550	6,041	2,509
Over 65	160	96	64

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	1	0	1
18-19	3	2	1
20-21	76	57	19
22-24	2,086	1,630	456
25-29	8,413	6,040	2,373
30-34	8,522	5,731	2,791
35-39	7,917	5,499	2,418
40-49	11,604	8,562	3,042
50-64	5,343	3,926	1,417
Over 65	155	100	55

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 Western Governors University, 156,935 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 0 students are enrolled in some online courses.

9,429 students lived in Utah or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 147,506 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses
All Students	156,935	156,935
Undergraduate	112,807	112,807
Graduate	44,128	44,128

Online Student Population by Locality
	Utah Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	9,429	147,506
Undergraduate	6,574	106,233
Graduate	2,855	41,273

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 112,807 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 34,557 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 30.63%.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	78,250
Transfer-in Full-time	34,557

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