Student Population at Mississippi State

By race/ethnicity, 16,265 White, 3,610 Black, and 398 Asian students out of a total of 23,150 are attending at Mississippi State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Mississippi State University is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 47.9% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

By age, Mississippi State has 273 students under 18 years old and 34 students over 65 years old. There are 18,798 students under 25 years old, and 4,352 students over 25 years old out of 23,150 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 273 students are younger than 18 and 9 students are older than 65. Mississippi State has 17,233 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,334 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,565 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,018 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 Mississippi State University, 3,877 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,082 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,473 students who live in Mississippi or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,404 students live in another State or outside of the United States.