The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Student Population

How many students at UTK? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 38,728 students have enrolled in The University of Tennessee-Knoxville with 30,564 undergraduate and 8,164 graduate students.

By gender, 17,837 male and 20,891 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

3,176 students are enrolled exclusively, and 12,105 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

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville has a total of 38,728 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 30,564 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,164 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 17,837 male and 20,891 female students (the male-female ratio is 46:54) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 29,282 White, 1,675 Black, and 1,396 Asian students out of a total of 38,728 are attending at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 41.8% 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, UTK has 308 students under 18 years old and 57 students over 65 years old. There are 32,211 students under 25 years old, and 6,517 students over 25 years old out of 38,728 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 308 students are younger than 18 and 26 students are older than 65. UTK has 29,384 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,180 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,827 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,337 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 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 3,176 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 12,105 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,141 students who live in Tennessee or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,035 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 30,564 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,602 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.24%.1,488 students have transferred in as full-time status and 114 students transferred in as part-time status.