Eastern University Student Population

How many students at Eastern? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 8,727 students have enrolled in Eastern University with 2,500 undergraduate and 6,227 graduate students.

By gender, 3,664 male and 5,063 female students are attending the school.

It has more students compared to similar colleges (6,772 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Master's College and University (larger programs)).

6,327 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,146 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

Eastern University has a total of 8,727 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 2,500 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 6,227 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 3,664 male and 5,063 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 4,108 White, 1,899 Black, and 550 Asian students out of a total of 8,727 are attending at Eastern University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Eastern University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 70.6% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, Eastern has 31 students under 18 years old and 47 students over 65 years old. There are 2,163 students under 25 years old, and 6,449 students over 25 years old out of 8,727 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 31 students are younger than 18 and 9 students are older than 65. Eastern has 1,599 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 793 students aged 25 and over.

It has 564 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,656 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 Eastern University, 6,327 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,146 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,475 students who live in Pennsylvania or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,852 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 2,500 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 539 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 21.56%.259 students have transferred in as full-time status and 280 students transferred in as part-time status.