Student Population at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
31,705	20,029	11,676

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 31,705 students have enrolled in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with 20,029 undergraduate and 11,676 graduate students.

By gender, 12,594 male and 19,111 female students are attending the school.

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

1,918 students are enrolled exclusively, and 6,104 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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a total of 31,705 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 20,029 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 11,676 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 12,594 male and 19,111 female students (the male-female ratio is 40:60) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	31,705	20,029	11,676
Men	12,594	7,941	4,653
Women	19,111	12,088	7,023

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 17,589 White, 2,731 Black, and 3,873 Asian students out of a total of 31,705 are attending at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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	90	33	57
Asian	3,873	1,548	2,325
Black	2,731	913	1,818
Hispanic	2,795	990	1,805
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	20	14	6
White	17,589	7,066	10,523
Two or more races	1,527	575	952
Race Unknown	684	304	380

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	62	22	40
Asian	2,788	1,162	1,626
Black	1,669	601	1,068
Hispanic	1,918	668	1,250
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	10	7	3
White	10,989	4,346	6,643
Two or more races	1,023	401	622
Race Unknown	491	217	274

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	0	0	0
Asian	120	59	61
Black	56	13	43
Hispanic	137	51	86
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	0	0	0
White	531	259	272
Two or more races	30	15	15
Race Unknown	20	15	5

Student Age Distribution

By age, UNC has 518 students under 18 years old and 19 students over 65 years old. There are 23,056 students under 25 years old, and 8,649 students over 25 years old out of 31,705 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 518 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. UNC has 19,608 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 421 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,448 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,228 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	518	331	187
18-19	9,196	5,790	3,406
20-21	8,976	5,372	3,604
22-24	4,366	2,717	1,649
25-29	4,718	2,839	1,879
30-34	2,028	988	1,040
35-39	838	446	392
40-49	811	472	339
50-64	235	146	89
Over 65	19	10	9

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	518	331	187
18-19	9,189	5,786	3,403
20-21	8,751	5,211	3,540
22-24	1,150	540	610
25-29	241	124	117
30-34	77	37	40
35-39	41	19	22
40-49	39	23	16
50-64	20	14	6
Over 65	3	3	0

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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1,918 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,104 students are enrolled in some online courses.

445 students lived in North Carolina or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,473 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	31,705	1,918	6,104
Undergraduate	20,029	38	4,330
Graduate	11,676	1,880	1,774

Online Student Population by Locality
	North Carolina Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	445	1,422	51
Undergraduate	26	10	2
Graduate	419	1,412	49

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 20,029 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 989 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 4.94%.973 students have transferred in as full-time status and 16 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	18,204
Transfer-in Full-time	973
Regular Part-time	836
Transfer-in Part-time	16

Student Population at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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