Minnesota State University-Mankato Student Population

How many students at Minnesota State University-Mankato? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 15,271 students have enrolled in Minnesota State University-Mankato with 13,433 undergraduate and 1,838 graduate students.

By gender, 6,476 male and 8,795 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (10,123 students on average - public Master's College and University (larger programs)).

2,748 students are enrolled exclusively, and 6,992 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

Minnesota State University-Mankato has a total of 15,271 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 13,433 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,838 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 6,476 male and 8,795 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 10,819 White, 900 Black, and 479 Asian students out of a total of 15,271 are attending at Minnesota State University-Mankato. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Minnesota State University-Mankato is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 48.9% 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, Minnesota State University-Mankato has 1,285 students under 18 years old and 15 students over 65 years old. There are 11,959 students under 25 years old, and 2,687 students over 25 years old out of 14,709 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,285 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. Minnesota State University-Mankato has 11,430 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,406 students aged 25 and over.

It has 529 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,281 students aged 25 and over.

*The age distribution is based on 2023-2024 enrollment data.

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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 Minnesota State University-Mankato, 2,748 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,992 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,433 students who live in Minnesota or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 315 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 13,433 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,209 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.00%.851 students have transferred in as full-time status and 358 students transferred in as part-time status.