Student Population at Middle Tennessee State

By race/ethnicity, 12,929 White, 2,737 Black, and 874 Asian students out of a total of 20,488 are attending at Middle Tennessee State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Middle Tennessee State University is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 57% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

By age, Middle Tennessee State has 1,757 students under 18 years old and 48 students over 65 years old. There are 16,545 students under 25 years old, and 3,943 students over 25 years old out of 20,488 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,757 students are younger than 18 and 22 students are older than 65. Middle Tennessee State has 15,829 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,213 students aged 25 and over.

It has 716 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,730 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 Middle Tennessee State University, 3,076 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 8,644 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,944 students who live in Tennessee or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 132 students live in another State or outside of the United States.