Northern Arizona University Student Population

How many students at NAU? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 28,086 students have enrolled in Northern Arizona University with 23,204 undergraduate and 4,882 graduate students.

By gender, 10,274 male and 17,812 female students are attending the school.

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

5,570 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,723 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

Northern Arizona University has a total of 28,086 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 23,204 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,882 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,274 male and 17,812 female students (the male-female ratio is 37:63) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 15,348 White, 833 Black, and 825 Asian students out of a total of 28,086 are attending at Northern Arizona 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, NAU has 347 students under 18 years old and 37 students over 65 years old. There are 21,321 students under 25 years old, and 6,765 students over 25 years old out of 28,086 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 347 students are younger than 18 and 17 students are older than 65. NAU has 20,046 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,158 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,275 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,607 students aged 25 and over.

• Total
• 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 Northern Arizona University, 5,570 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,723 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,854 students lived in Arizona or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,716 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 23,204 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,777 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.66%.1,287 students have transferred in as full-time status and 490 students transferred in as part-time status.