Virginia Commonwealth University Student Population

How many students at VCU? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 28,082 students have enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University with 20,958 undergraduate and 7,124 graduate students.

By gender, 10,044 male and 18,038 female students are attending the school.

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

2,680 students are enrolled exclusively, and 16,122 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

Virginia Commonwealth University has a total of 28,082 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 20,958 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,124 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,044 male and 18,038 female students (the male-female ratio is 36:64) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 12,098 White, 5,248 Black, and 3,733 Asian students out of a total of 28,082 are attending at Virginia Commonwealth 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, VCU has 251 students under 18 years old and 27 students over 65 years old. There are 21,073 students under 25 years old, and 7,009 students over 25 years old out of 28,082 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 251 students are younger than 18 and 19 students are older than 65. VCU has 18,956 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,002 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,117 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,007 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 Virginia Commonwealth University, 2,680 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 16,122 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,354 students lived in Virginia or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 326 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 20,958 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,485 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.09%.1,249 students have transferred in as full-time status and 236 students transferred in as part-time status.