Mississippi State University Student Population

How many students at Mississippi State? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 22,649 students have enrolled in Mississippi State University with 18,305 undergraduate and 4,344 graduate students.

By gender, 10,985 male and 11,664 female students are attending the school.

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

3,686 students are enrolled exclusively, and 6,394 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

Mississippi State University has a total of 22,649 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 18,305 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,344 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,985 male and 11,664 female students (the male-female ratio is 49:51) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 16,303 White, 3,451 Black, and 373 Asian students out of a total of 22,649 are attending at Mississippi 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, Mississippi State has 240 students under 18 years old and 26 students over 65 years old. There are 18,276 students under 25 years old, and 4,373 students over 25 years old out of 22,649 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 240 students are younger than 18 and 7 students are older than 65. Mississippi State has 16,882 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,423 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,394 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,950 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 Mississippi State University, 3,686 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,394 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,357 students lived in Mississippi or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,329 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 18,305 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,829 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.99%.1,649 students have transferred in as full-time status and 180 students transferred in as part-time status.