Montana State University Student Population

How many students at MSU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 17,135 students have enrolled in Montana State University with 15,046 undergraduate and 2,089 graduate students.

By gender, 8,879 male and 8,256 female students are attending the school.

It has much fewer students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

909 students are enrolled exclusively, and 2,540 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

Montana State University has a total of 17,135 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 15,046 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,089 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 8,879 male and 8,256 female students (the male-female ratio is 52:48) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 14,010 White, 100 Black, and 179 Asian students out of a total of 17,135 are attending at Montana State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Montana State University is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 32.4% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution has limited racial and ethnic diversity in its student population.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, MSU has 507 students under 18 years old and 34 students over 65 years old. There are 14,464 students under 25 years old, and 2,671 students over 25 years old out of 17,135 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 507 students are younger than 18 and 17 students are older than 65. MSU has 13,935 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,111 students aged 25 and over.

It has 529 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,560 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 Montana State University, 909 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,540 students are enrolled in some online courses.

483 students who live in Montana or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 426 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 15,046 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 529 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.52%.430 students have transferred in as full-time status and 99 students transferred in as part-time status.