Portland State University Student Population

How many students at Portland State? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 19,951 students have enrolled in Portland State University with 15,414 undergraduate and 4,537 graduate students.

By gender, 8,449 male and 11,502 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (16,875 students on average - public Research University (high research activity)).

3,460 students are enrolled exclusively, and 7,027 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

Portland State University has a total of 19,951 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 15,414 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,537 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 8,449 male and 11,502 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 9,488 White, 1,042 Black, and 1,856 Asian students out of a total of 19,951 are attending at Portland State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Portland State University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 71.6% 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, Portland State has 1,105 students under 18 years old and 63 students over 65 years old. There are 10,918 students under 25 years old, and 9,032 students over 25 years old out of 19,951 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,105 students are younger than 18 and 34 students are older than 65. Portland State has 10,309 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 5,104 students aged 25 and over.

It has 609 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,928 students aged 25 and over.

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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 Portland State University, 3,460 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,027 students are enrolled in some online courses.

3,067 students who live in Oregon or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 393 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 15,414 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,031 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 13.18%.1,549 students have transferred in as full-time status and 482 students transferred in as part-time status.