Boise State University Student Population

How many students at Boise State? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 27,198 students have enrolled in Boise State University with 23,983 undergraduate and 3,215 graduate students.

By gender, 11,595 male and 15,603 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (16,875 students on average - public Research University (high research activity)).

5,241 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,178 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

Boise State University has a total of 27,198 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 23,983 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,215 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 11,595 male and 15,603 female students (the male-female ratio is 43:57) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 18,962 White, 557 Black, and 703 Asian students out of a total of 27,198 are attending at Boise State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Boise State University is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 48.7% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, Boise State has 6,269 students under 18 years old and 31 students over 65 years old. There are 20,843 students under 25 years old, and 6,355 students over 25 years old out of 27,198 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 6,269 students are younger than 18 and 16 students are older than 65. Boise State has 20,304 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,679 students aged 25 and over.

It has 539 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,676 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 Boise State University, 5,241 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,178 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,612 students who live in Idaho or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,629 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 23,983 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,733 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.23%.1,052 students have transferred in as full-time status and 681 students transferred in as part-time status.