Stanford University Student Population

How many students at Stanford? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 18,283 students have enrolled in Stanford University with 8,049 undergraduate and 10,234 graduate students.

By gender, 9,650 male and 8,633 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively fewer students compared to similar colleges (19,694 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (very high research activity)).

288 students are enrolled exclusively, and 779 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

Stanford University has a total of 18,283 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 8,049 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 10,234 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,650 male and 8,633 female students (the male-female ratio is 53:47) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 4,838 White, 1,033 Black, and 3,748 Asian students out of a total of 18,283 are attending at Stanford 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, Stanford has 258 students under 18 years old and 13 students over 65 years old. There are 10,846 students under 25 years old, and 7,437 students over 25 years old out of 18,283 total students.

Stanford has 7,931 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 118 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Stanford, 2 students are younger than 18 and 13 students are older than 65. It has 2,915 graduate students aged under 25 and 7,319 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 Stanford University, 288 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 779 students are enrolled in some online courses.

97 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 191 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,049 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 46 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 0.57%.