Student Population at Stanford University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
18,283	8,049	10,234

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 18,283 students have enrolled in Stanford University with 8,049 undergraduate and 10,234 graduate students.

By gender, 9,650 male and 8,633 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively fewer students compared to similar colleges (19,694 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (very high research activity)).

288 students are enrolled exclusively, and 779 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

Stanford University has a total of 18,283 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 8,049 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 10,234 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,650 male and 8,633 female students (the male-female ratio is 53:47) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	18,283	8,049	10,234
Men	9,650	3,912	5,738
Women	8,633	4,137	4,496

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 4,838 White, 1,033 Black, and 3,748 Asian students out of a total of 18,283 are attending at Stanford University. 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	84	41	43
Asian	3,748	1,883	1,865
Black	1,033	490	543
Hispanic	2,342	1,219	1,123
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	24	11	13
White	4,838	2,578	2,260
Two or more races	1,271	571	700
Race Unknown	359	231	128

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	70	34	36
Asian	2,073	1,016	1,057
Black	653	312	341
Hispanic	1,482	732	750
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	18	7	11
White	2,034	1,008	1,026
Two or more races	812	357	455
Race Unknown	19	11	8

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	0	0	0
Asian	5	3	2
Black	2	1	1
Hispanic	13	7	6
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	0	0	0
White	16	12	4
Two or more races	6	3	3
Race Unknown	0	0	0

Student Age Distribution

By age, Stanford has 258 students under 18 years old and 13 students over 65 years old. There are 10,846 students under 25 years old, and 7,437 students over 25 years old out of 18,283 total students.

Stanford has 7,931 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 118 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Stanford, 2 students are younger than 18 and 13 students are older than 65. It has 2,915 graduate students aged under 25 and 7,319 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	258	113	145
18-19	2,424	1,314	1,110
20-21	3,625	1,875	1,750
22-24	4,539	2,136	2,403
25-29	5,041	2,258	2,783
30-34	1,624	660	964
35-39	436	163	273
40-49	242	77	165
50-64	81	30	51
Over 65	13	7	6

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	256	112	144
18-19	2,420	1,313	1,107
20-21	3,559	1,844	1,715
22-24	1,696	833	863
25-29	75	16	59
30-34	30	16	14
35-39	8	1	7
40-49	4	1	3
50-64	1	1	0

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	2	1	1
18-19	4	1	3
20-21	66	31	35
22-24	2,843	1,303	1,540
25-29	4,966	2,242	2,724
30-34	1,594	644	950
35-39	428	162	266
40-49	238	76	162
50-64	80	29	51
Over 65	13	7	6

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 Stanford University, 288 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 779 students are enrolled in some online courses.

97 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 191 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	18,283	288	779
Undergraduate	8,049	288	0
Graduate	10,234	0	779

Online Student Population by Locality
	California Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	97	191
Undergraduate	97	191
Graduate	0	-

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,049 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 46 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 0.57%.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	7,715
Transfer-in Full-time	46

Student Population at Stanford University

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