Lamar University Student Population

How many students at Lamar? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 16,803 students have enrolled in Lamar University with 8,264 undergraduate and 8,539 graduate students.

By gender, 5,723 male and 11,080 female students are attending the school.

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

9,132 students are enrolled exclusively, and 4,445 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

Lamar University has a total of 16,803 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 8,264 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,539 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 5,723 male and 11,080 female students (the male-female ratio is 34:66) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,649 White, 4,322 Black, and 723 Asian students out of a total of 16,803 are attending at Lamar 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, Lamar has 373 students under 18 years old and 25 students over 65 years old. There are 6,812 students under 25 years old, and 9,472 students over 25 years old out of 16,320 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 373 students are younger than 18 and 9 students are older than 65. Lamar has 6,205 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,136 students aged 25 and over.

It has 607 graduate students aged under 25 and 7,336 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 Lamar University, 9,132 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 4,445 students are enrolled in some online courses.

8,366 students lived in Texas or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 766 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,264 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 760 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.20%.464 students have transferred in as full-time status and 296 students transferred in as part-time status.