Portland State University Student Population

How many students at Portland State? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 21,609 students have enrolled in Portland State University with 16,862 undergraduate and 4,747 graduate students.

By gender, 8,975 male and 12,634 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (16,325 students in average - public Research University (high research activity)).

3,937 students are enrolled exclusively, and 8,119 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

Portland State University has a total of 21,609 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 16,862 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,747 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 8,975 male and 12,634 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 10,694 White, 934 Black, and 2,029 Asian students out of a total of 21,609 are attending at Portland 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, Portland State has 1,251 students under 18 years old and 60 students over 65 years old. There are 12,015 students under 25 years old, and 9,594 students over 25 years old out of 21,609 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,251 students are younger than 18 and 28 students are older than 65. Portland State has 11,374 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 5,488 students aged 25 and over.

It has 641 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,106 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 Portland State University, 3,937 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 8,119 students are enrolled in some online courses.

3,432 students lived in Oregon or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 505 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 16,862 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,201 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 13.05%.1,778 students have transferred in as full-time status and 423 students transferred in as part-time status.