Student Population at Grand Canyon University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
101,816	66,769	35,047

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 101,816 students have enrolled in Grand Canyon University with 66,769 undergraduate and 35,047 graduate students.

By gender, 27,888 male and 73,928 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (25,222 students in average - private (for-profit) Doctoral / Research University).

77,293 students are enrolled exclusively, and 14,264 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

Grand Canyon University has a total of 101,816 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 66,769 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 35,047 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 27,888 male and 73,928 female students (the male-female ratio is 27:73) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	101,816	66,769	35,047
Men	27,888	20,019	7,869
Women	73,928	46,750	27,178

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 47,725 White, 18,952 Black, and 3,288 Asian students out of a total of 101,816 are attending at Grand Canyon University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

All Students

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Total)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	967	219	748
Asian	3,288	891	2,397
Black	18,952	4,539	14,413
Hispanic	21,569	5,820	15,749
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	600	167	433
White	47,725	13,398	34,327
Two or more races	4,233	1,340	2,893
Race Unknown	3,502	1,086	2,416

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	594	149	445
Asian	1,934	579	1,355
Black	9,999	2,530	7,469
Hispanic	15,433	4,476	10,957
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	434	126	308
White	32,300	10,039	22,261
Two or more races	3,136	1,079	2,057
Race Unknown	2,244	749	1,495

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	112	27	85
Asian	333	92	241
Black	2,644	601	2,043
Hispanic	2,589	689	1,900
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	67	16	51
White	4,822	1,365	3,457
Two or more races	474	138	336
Race Unknown	227	61	166

Student Age Distribution

By age, GCU has 1,001 students under 18 years old and 597 students over 65 years old. There are 35,917 students under 25 years old, and 65,899 students over 25 years old out of 101,816 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,000 students are younger than 18 and 141 students are older than 65. GCU has 33,019 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 33,750 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at GCU, 1 students are younger than 18 and 456 students are older than 65. It has 2,898 graduate students aged under 25 and 32,149 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	1,001	660	341
18-19	11,966	7,579	4,387
20-21	12,204	7,727	4,477
22-24	10,746	7,538	3,208
25-29	15,960	11,967	3,993
30-34	13,482	10,110	3,372
35-39	11,194	8,578	2,616
40-49	16,146	12,693	3,453
50-64	8,520	6,673	1,847
Over 65	597	403	194

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	1,000	659	341
18-19	11,965	7,579	4,386
20-21	12,074	7,616	4,458
22-24	7,980	5,335	2,645
25-29	9,034	6,648	2,386
30-34	7,581	5,607	1,974
35-39	6,146	4,691	1,455
40-49	7,587	5,901	1,686
50-64	3,261	2,617	644
Over 65	141	97	44

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	1	1	0
18-19	1	0	1
20-21	130	111	19
22-24	2,766	2,203	563
25-29	6,926	5,319	1,607
30-34	5,901	4,503	1,398
35-39	5,048	3,887	1,161
40-49	8,559	6,792	1,767
50-64	5,259	4,056	1,203
Over 65	456	306	150

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 Grand Canyon University, 77,293 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 14,264 students are enrolled in some online courses.

12,739 students lived in Arizona or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 64,554 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	101,816	77,293	14,264
Undergraduate	66,769	43,141	14,255
Graduate	35,047	34,152	9

Online Student Population by Locality
	Arizona Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	12,739	64,226	328
Undergraduate	6,987	35,957	197
Graduate	5,752	28,269	131

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 66,769 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 11,334 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 16.97%.1,964 students have transferred in as full-time status and 9,370 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	21,981
Transfer-in Full-time	1,964
Regular Part-time	33,454
Transfer-in Part-time	9,370

Student Population at Grand Canyon University

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