North Dakota State University-Main Campus Student Population

How many students at NDSU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 11,952 students have enrolled in North Dakota State University-Main Campus with 9,762 undergraduate and 2,190 graduate students.

By gender, 5,797 male and 6,155 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)).

1,054 students are enrolled exclusively, and 6,029 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

North Dakota State University-Main Campus has a total of 11,952 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 9,762 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,190 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 5,797 male and 6,155 female students (the male-female ratio is 49:51) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 9,337 White, 402 Black, and 220 Asian students out of a total of 11,952 are attending at North Dakota State University-Main Campus. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

North Dakota State University-Main Campus is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 38.5% 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, NDSU has 79 students under 18 years old and 6 students over 65 years old. There are 9,937 students under 25 years old, and 2,014 students over 25 years old out of 11,952 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 79 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. NDSU has 9,171 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 590 students aged 25 and over.

It has 766 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,424 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 North Dakota State University-Main Campus, 1,054 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,029 students are enrolled in some online courses.

525 students who live in North Dakota or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 529 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 9,762 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 569 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.83%.477 students have transferred in as full-time status and 92 students transferred in as part-time status.