South Dakota State University Student Population

How many students at South Dakota State? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 11,327 students have enrolled in South Dakota State University with 9,917 undergraduate and 1,410 graduate students.

By gender, 4,951 male and 6,376 female students are attending the school.

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

2,128 students are enrolled exclusively, and 3,550 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

South Dakota State University has a total of 11,327 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 9,917 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,410 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 4,951 male and 6,376 female students (the male-female ratio is 44:56) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 9,438 White, 181 Black, and 152 Asian students out of a total of 11,327 are attending at South Dakota 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, South Dakota State has 736 students under 18 years old and 3 students over 65 years old. There are 9,687 students under 25 years old, and 1,778 students over 25 years old out of 11,465 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 736 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. South Dakota State has 9,122 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 725 students aged 25 and over.

It has 565 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,053 students aged 25 and over.

*The age distribution is based on 2021-2022 enrollment data.

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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 South Dakota State University, 2,128 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,550 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,767 students lived in South Dakota or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 361 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 9,917 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 414 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 4.17%.315 students have transferred in as full-time status and 99 students transferred in as part-time status.