Student Population at Georgia Southern

By race/ethnicity, 15,037 White, 6,321 Black, and 534 Asian students out of a total of 27,423 are attending at Georgia Southern University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Georgia Southern University is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 63.5% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

By age, Georgia Southern has 1,504 students under 18 years old and 80 students over 65 years old. There are 21,977 students under 25 years old, and 5,446 students over 25 years old out of 27,423 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,504 students are younger than 18 and 60 students are older than 65. Georgia Southern has 20,961 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,580 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,016 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,866 students aged 25 and over.

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At Georgia Southern University, 6,106 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,620 students are enrolled in some online courses.

5,410 students who live in Georgia or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 696 students live in another State or outside of the United States.