Student Population at East Carolina University

East Carolina University has a total of 27,151 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 21,688 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 5,463 students joined graduate programs.

By race/ethnicity, 17,239 White, 4,445 Black, and 773 Asian students out of a total of 27,151 are attending at East Carolina University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

By age, ECU has 426 students under 18 years old and 28 students over 65 years old. There are 19,916 students under 25 years old, and 7,235 students over 25 years old out of 27,151 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 426 students are younger than 18 and 16 students are older than 65. ECU has 18,313 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,375 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,603 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,860 students aged 25 and over.

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At East Carolina University, 7,807 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 11,621 students are enrolled in some online courses.

7,369 students lived in North Carolina or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 438 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Among 21,688 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,641 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.57%.1,198 students have transferred in as full-time status and 443 students transferred in as part-time status.