Murray State University Student Population

How many students at Murray State? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 9,479 students have enrolled in Murray State University with 7,679 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students.

By gender, 3,516 male and 5,963 female students are attending the school.

It has almost same number of students compared to similar colleges (9,858 students in average - public Master's College and University (larger programs)).

1,944 students are enrolled exclusively, and 2,684 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

Murray State University has a total of 9,479 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 7,679 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,800 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 3,516 male and 5,963 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, 7,327 White, 575 Black, and 97 Asian students out of a total of 9,479 are attending at Murray 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, Murray State has 940 students under 18 years old and 22 students over 65 years old. There are 7,476 students under 25 years old, and 2,003 students over 25 years old out of 9,479 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 940 students are younger than 18 and 10 students are older than 65. Murray State has 6,995 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 684 students aged 25 and over.

It has 481 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,319 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 Murray State University, 1,944 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,684 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,021 students lived in Kentucky or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 923 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 7,679 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 510 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 6.64%.416 students have transferred in as full-time status and 94 students transferred in as part-time status.