Grand Canyon University Student Population

How many students at GCU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 113,257 students have enrolled in Grand Canyon University with 75,936 undergraduate and 37,321 graduate students.

By gender, 30,775 male and 82,482 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (6,371 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Doctoral / Research University).

89,777 students are enrolled exclusively, and 13,471 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

Grand Canyon University has a total of 113,257 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 75,936 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 37,321 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 30,775 male and 82,482 female students (the male-female ratio is 27:73) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 49,869 White, 22,814 Black, and 3,645 Asian students out of a total of 113,257 are attending at Grand Canyon University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Grand Canyon University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 71% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, GCU has 944 students under 18 years old and 610 students over 65 years old. There are 37,419 students under 25 years old, and 75,838 students over 25 years old out of 113,257 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 944 students are younger than 18 and 168 students are older than 65. GCU has 34,374 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 41,562 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,045 graduate students aged under 25 and 34,276 students aged 25 and over.

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Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At Grand Canyon University, 89,777 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,471 students are enrolled in some online courses.

13,611 students who live in Arizona or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 76,166 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 75,936 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 14,033 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 18.48%.2,527 students have transferred in as full-time status and 11,506 students transferred in as part-time status.