Student Population at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
23,805	19,189	4,616

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 23,805 students have enrolled in University of Nebraska-Lincoln with 19,189 undergraduate and 4,616 graduate students.

By gender, 11,869 male and 11,936 female students are attending the school.

It has fewer students compared to similar colleges (33,713 students in average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

1,652 students are enrolled exclusively, and 13,200 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

University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a total of 23,805 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 19,189 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,616 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 11,869 male and 11,936 female students (the male-female ratio is 50:50) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	23,805	19,189	4,616
Men	11,869	9,616	2,253
Women	11,936	9,573	2,363

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 17,427 White, 673 Black, and 850 Asian students out of a total of 23,805 are attending at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 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	52	22	30
Asian	850	416	434
Black	673	357	316
Hispanic	1,958	954	1,004
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	14	10	4
White	17,427	8,579	8,848
Two or more races	808	366	442
Race Unknown	340	173	167

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	37	17	20
Asian	727	355	372
Black	552	295	257
Hispanic	1,701	825	876
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	13	9	4
White	14,579	7,292	7,287
Two or more races	684	304	380
Race Unknown	187	109	78

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	1	0	1
Asian	20	9	11
Black	25	18	7
Hispanic	76	35	41
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	0	0	0
White	504	279	225
Two or more races	30	14	16
Race Unknown	4	3	1

Student Age Distribution

By age, U of Nebraska-Lincoln has 283 students under 18 years old and 26 students over 65 years old. There are 19,702 students under 25 years old, and 4,103 students over 25 years old out of 23,805 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 283 students are younger than 18 and 1 students are older than 65. U of Nebraska-Lincoln has 18,423 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 766 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,279 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,337 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	283	172	111
18-19	8,207	4,377	3,830
20-21	7,693	3,903	3,790
22-24	3,519	1,557	1,962
25-29	1,941	920	1,021
30-34	944	398	546
35-39	523	239	284
40-49	496	255	241
50-64	173	104	69
Over 65	26	11	15

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	283	172	111
18-19	8,207	4,377	3,830
20-21	7,638	3,872	3,766
22-24	2,295	881	1,414
25-29	459	168	291
30-34	171	49	122
35-39	77	34	43
40-49	41	13	28
50-64	17	7	10
Over 65	1	0	1

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women

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 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1,652 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,200 students are enrolled in some online courses.

807 students lived in Nebraska or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 845 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	23,805	1,652	13,200
Undergraduate	19,189	278	12,736
Graduate	4,616	1,374	464

Online Student Population by Locality
	Nebraska Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	807	764	81
Undergraduate	186	52	40
Graduate	621	712	41

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 19,189 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 746 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.89%.700 students have transferred in as full-time status and 46 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	17,475
Transfer-in Full-time	700
Regular Part-time	968
Transfer-in Part-time	46

Student Population at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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