Iowa State University Student Population

How many students at ISU? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 29,969 students have enrolled in Iowa State University with 25,241 undergraduate and 4,728 graduate students.

By gender, 16,417 male and 13,552 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively fewer students compared to similar colleges (33,713 students in average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

1,013 students are enrolled exclusively, and 15,545 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

Iowa State University has a total of 29,969 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 25,241 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,728 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 16,417 male and 13,552 female students (the male-female ratio is 55:45) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 21,634 White, 787 Black, and 1,228 Asian students out of a total of 29,969 are attending at Iowa State 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, ISU has 218 students under 18 years old and 8 students over 65 years old. There are 26,288 students under 25 years old, and 4,420 students over 25 years old out of 30,708 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 218 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. ISU has 24,779 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,029 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,509 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,391 students aged 25 and over.

*The age distribution is based on 2021-2022 enrollment data.

• 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 Iowa State University, 1,013 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 15,545 students are enrolled in some online courses.

573 students lived in Iowa or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 440 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 25,241 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,383 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.48%.1,304 students have transferred in as full-time status and 79 students transferred in as part-time status.