University of the People Student Population

How many students at U of the People? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 34,192 students have enrolled in University of the People with 27,220 undergraduate and 6,972 graduate students.

By gender, 18,317 male and 15,875 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (6,139 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Master's College and University (larger programs)).

U of the People is a completely online college and 34,192 students are enrolled exclusively.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

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Student Population by Gender

University of the People has a total of 34,192 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 27,220 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 6,972 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 18,317 male and 15,875 female students (the male-female ratio is 54:46) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 1,715 White, 1,082 Black, and 609 Asian students out of a total of 34,192 are attending at University of the People. 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, U of the People has 291 students under 18 years old and 143 students over 65 years old. There are 15,920 students under 25 years old, and 40,372 students over 25 years old out of 56,292 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 291 students are younger than 18 and 92 students are older than 65. U of the People has 15,310 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 29,515 students aged 25 and over.

It has 610 graduate students aged under 25 and 10,857 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 University of the People, 34,192 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 0 students are enrolled in some online courses.

686 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 33,506 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 27,220 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 111 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 0.41%.42 students have transferred in as full-time status and 69 students transferred in as part-time status.