Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Student Population

How many students at BGSU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 17,594 students have enrolled in Bowling Green State University-Main Campus with 14,783 undergraduate and 2,811 graduate students.

By gender, 7,530 male and 10,064 female students are attending the school.

It has almost same number of students compared to similar colleges (16,875 students on average - public Research University (high research activity)).

2,479 students are enrolled exclusively, and 4,920 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

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus has a total of 17,594 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 14,783 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,811 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 7,530 male and 10,064 female students (the male-female ratio is 43:57) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 13,260 White, 1,067 Black, and 241 Asian students out of a total of 17,594 are attending at Bowling Green State University-Main Campus. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 42.3% 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, BGSU has 1,508 students under 18 years old and 13 students over 65 years old. There are 14,848 students under 25 years old, and 2,746 students over 25 years old out of 17,594 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,508 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. BGSU has 13,944 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 839 students aged 25 and over.

It has 904 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,907 students aged 25 and over.

• Total
• 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 Bowling Green State University-Main Campus, 2,479 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 4,920 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,120 students who live in Ohio or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 359 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 14,783 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 492 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.33%.412 students have transferred in as full-time status and 80 students transferred in as part-time status.