Grand Canyon University Student Population

How many students at GCU? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 101,816 students have enrolled in Grand Canyon University with 66,769 undergraduate and 35,047 graduate students.

By gender, 27,888 male and 73,928 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (25,222 students in average - private (for-profit) Doctoral / Research University).

77,293 students are enrolled exclusively, and 14,264 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

Grand Canyon University has a total of 101,816 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 66,769 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 35,047 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 27,888 male and 73,928 female students (the male-female ratio is 27:73) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 47,725 White, 18,952 Black, and 3,288 Asian students out of a total of 101,816 are attending at Grand Canyon University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in chart below (academic year 2022-2023 data).

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, GCU has 1,001 students under 18 years old and 597 students over 65 years old. There are 35,917 students under 25 years old, and 65,899 students over 25 years old out of 101,816 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,000 students are younger than 18 and 141 students are older than 65. GCU has 33,019 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 33,750 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at GCU, 1 students are younger than 18 and 456 students are older than 65. It has 2,898 graduate students aged under 25 and 32,149 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

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 Grand Canyon University, 77,293 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 14,264 students are enrolled in some online courses.

12,739 students lived in Arizona or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 64,554 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 66,769 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 11,334 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 16.97%.1,964 students have transferred in as full-time status and 9,370 students transferred in as part-time status.