Georgia State University Student Population

How many students at GSU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 34,944 students have enrolled in Georgia State University with 27,415 undergraduate and 7,529 graduate students.

By gender, 13,743 male and 21,201 female students are attending the school.

It has almost same number of students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

5,247 students are enrolled exclusively, and 18,242 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

Georgia State University has a total of 34,944 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 27,415 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,529 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 13,743 male and 21,201 female students (the male-female ratio is 39:61) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,487 White, 13,959 Black, and 5,015 Asian students out of a total of 34,944 are attending at Georgia State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Georgia State University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 76.6% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, GSU has 680 students under 18 years old and 215 students over 65 years old. There are 24,936 students under 25 years old, and 10,008 students over 25 years old out of 34,944 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 680 students are younger than 18 and 128 students are older than 65. GSU has 22,955 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 4,460 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,981 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,548 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

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 Georgia State University, 5,247 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 18,242 students are enrolled in some online courses.

4,923 students who live in Georgia or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 324 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 27,415 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,392 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.08%.996 students have transferred in as full-time status and 396 students transferred in as part-time status.