Student Population at Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University has a total of 22,649 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 18,305 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,344 students joined graduate programs.

By race/ethnicity, 16,303 White, 3,451 Black, and 373 Asian students out of a total of 22,649 are attending at Mississippi State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

By age, Mississippi State has 240 students under 18 years old and 26 students over 65 years old. There are 18,276 students under 25 years old, and 4,373 students over 25 years old out of 22,649 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 240 students are younger than 18 and 7 students are older than 65. Mississippi State has 16,882 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,423 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,394 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,950 students aged 25 and over.

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At Mississippi State University, 3,686 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,394 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,357 students lived in Mississippi or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,329 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Among 18,305 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,829 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.99%.1,649 students have transferred in as full-time status and 180 students transferred in as part-time status.