University of Mount Olive Student Population

How many students at UMO? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 2,109 students have enrolled in University of Mount Olive with 1,944 undergraduate and 165 graduate students.

By gender, 662 male and 1,447 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (1,493 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Master's College and University (smaller programs)).

1,176 students are enrolled exclusively, and 708 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

University of Mount Olive has a total of 2,109 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 1,944 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 165 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 662 male and 1,447 female students (the male-female ratio is 31:69) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 1,075 White, 573 Black, and 12 Asian students out of a total of 2,109 are attending at University of Mount Olive. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of Mount Olive is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 65.4% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, UMO has 45 students under 18 years old and 10 students over 65 years old. There are 1,109 students under 25 years old, and 1,019 students over 25 years old out of 2,128 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 45 students are younger than 18 and 10 students are older than 65. UMO has 1,062 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 875 students aged 25 and over.

It has 47 graduate students aged under 25 and 144 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 University of Mount Olive, 1,176 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 708 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,097 students who live in North Carolina or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 79 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 1,944 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 249 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 12.81%.167 students have transferred in as full-time status and 82 students transferred in as part-time status.