Student Population at Ole Miss

By race/ethnicity, 19,737 White, 2,818 Black, and 601 Asian students out of a total of 26,449 are attending at University of Mississippi. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of Mississippi is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 42.8% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

By age, Ole Miss has 59 students under 18 years old and 36 students over 65 years old. There are 22,895 students under 25 years old, and 3,554 students over 25 years old out of 26,449 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 59 students are younger than 18 and 28 students are older than 65. Ole Miss has 20,773 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 812 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,122 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,742 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 University of Mississippi, 1,904 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 14,512 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,396 students who live in Mississippi or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 508 students live in another State or outside of the United States.