Grand Valley State University Student Population

How many students at GVSU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 22,011 students have enrolled in Grand Valley State University with 19,002 undergraduate and 3,009 graduate students.

By gender, 8,369 male and 13,642 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (13,360 students on average - public Doctoral / Research University).

1,443 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,272 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 Valley State University has a total of 22,011 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 19,002 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,009 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 8,369 male and 13,642 female students (the male-female ratio is 38:62) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 16,334 White, 1,683 Black, and 598 Asian students out of a total of 22,011 are attending at Grand Valley State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Grand Valley State University is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 43.5% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, GVSU has 560 students under 18 years old and 7 students over 65 years old. There are 18,721 students under 25 years old, and 3,287 students over 25 years old out of 22,011 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 560 students are younger than 18 and 4 students are older than 65. GVSU has 17,548 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,451 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,173 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,836 students aged 25 and over.

• Total
• 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 Grand Valley State University, 1,443 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,272 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,368 students who live in Michigan or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 75 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 19,002 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,196 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 6.29%.1,006 students have transferred in as full-time status and 190 students transferred in as part-time status.