Student Population at Portland State

By race/ethnicity, 9,488 White, 1,042 Black, and 1,856 Asian students out of a total of 19,951 are attending at Portland State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Portland State University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 71.6% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

By age, Portland State has 1,105 students under 18 years old and 63 students over 65 years old. There are 10,918 students under 25 years old, and 9,032 students over 25 years old out of 19,951 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,105 students are younger than 18 and 34 students are older than 65. Portland State has 10,309 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 5,104 students aged 25 and over.

It has 609 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,928 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 Portland State University, 3,460 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,027 students are enrolled in some online courses.

3,067 students who live in Oregon or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 393 students live in another State or outside of the United States.