Grand Valley State University Student Population

How many students at GVSU? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 21,648 students have enrolled in Grand Valley State University with 18,665 undergraduate and 2,983 graduate students.

By gender, 8,323 male and 13,325 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (12,612 students in average - public Doctoral / Research University).

1,190 students are enrolled exclusively, and 8,673 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 Valley State University has a total of 21,648 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 18,665 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,983 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 8,323 male and 13,325 female students (the male-female ratio is 38:62) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 16,939 White, 1,148 Black, and 586 Asian students out of a total of 21,648 are attending at Grand Valley 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, GVSU has 535 students under 18 years old and 8 students over 65 years old. There are 18,552 students under 25 years old, and 3,092 students over 25 years old out of 21,648 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 535 students are younger than 18 and 5 students are older than 65. GVSU has 17,335 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,328 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,217 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,764 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 Valley State University, 1,190 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 8,673 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,129 students lived in Michigan or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 61 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 18,665 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,295 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 6.94%.1,134 students have transferred in as full-time status and 161 students transferred in as part-time status.