Wake Forest University Student Population

How many students at Wake Forest? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 8,963 students have enrolled in Wake Forest University with 5,447 undergraduate and 3,516 graduate students.

By gender, 3,876 male and 5,087 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively fewer students compared to similar colleges (10,434 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (high research activity)).

872 students are enrolled exclusively, and 537 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

Wake Forest University has a total of 8,963 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 5,447 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,516 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 3,876 male and 5,087 female students (the male-female ratio is 43:57) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 5,676 White, 696 Black, and 459 Asian students out of a total of 8,963 are attending at Wake Forest 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, Wake Forest has 1 students under 18 years old and 11 students over 65 years old. There are 6,551 students under 25 years old, and 2,396 students over 25 years old out of 8,947 total students.

Wake Forest has 5,462 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 10 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,089 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,386 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 Wake Forest University, 872 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 537 students are enrolled in some online courses.

410 students lived in North Carolina or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 462 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 5,447 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 30 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 0.55%.